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Add standard security to a PDF document

Does anyone know how to add standard security to an existing PDF document programmatically. I don't want to pay for a standalone program such as SecurSign from Appligent. Is there a free package, or one with a minimal cost that I can work into my Java program. Thanks.

yerkan

What do you exactly mean by "security"? Something like a password to open the document?

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dfc106

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I just want to apply standard pdf security. These are the options you have when you do save as... on a pdf and select Standard from the Security drop down box.

sanjay_thakur

Hi

I guess you do need to have access to adobe security
architecture APIs to integrate it with java

But maybe you could look into third party tools

http://www.epublishstore.com/details.asp?ProdID=214
http://www.epublishstore.com/list.asp?DepID=1&CtgID=2

This is also an interesting link

http://www.elcomsoft.com/
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/PDFsecurity.pdf

dfc106

ASKER

It looks like I can create a secured document using the iText PDF-Java library.
www.lowagie.com/iText

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sanjay_thakur

one more link

http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=810102

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