general/permission_settings
Change the permission settings so that only commenting the PDF is allowed.
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/*
* Permission Settings:
* Change the permission settings so that only commenting the PDF is allowed
*
* Define a master password of "PDFlib" and set the permissions so that
* printing (noprint nohiresprint), content extraction (nocopy)
* and changing the page contents or form field definitions (noassemble) will
* not be allowed, while creating annotations and filling out form fields will
* be permitted.
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 10
* Required data: none
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.general;
import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;
public class permission_settings
{
public static void main (String argv[])
{
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
String searchpath = "../input";
String outfile = "permission_settings.pdf";
String title = "Permission Settings";
pdflib p = null;
String optlist, text;
int tf;
int exitcode = 0;
try {
p = new pdflib();
p.set_option("searchpath={" + searchpath + "}");
/* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
p.set_option("errorpolicy=return");
/* Define a master password of "PDFlib" and set the permissions so that
* printing (noprint nohiresprint), contents extraction (nocopy)
* and changing the page contents or form field
* definitions (noassemble) will not be allowed, while creating
* annotations and filling out form fields will be permitted.
*/
optlist = "masterpassword=PDFlib permissions={noprint nohiresprint " +
"nocopy noassemble}";
if (p.begin_document(outfile, optlist) == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
p.set_info("Title", title);
/* Start page */
p.begin_page_ext(800, 400, "");
text = "The master password for this document is set to \"PDFlib\". " +
"The permissions for this document are set in a way that you " +
"can only create annotations. To accomplish this use the " +
"following options in the begin_document() call:<nextline>" +
"masterpassword=PDFlib<nextline>permissions={noprint " +
"nohiresprint nocopy noassemble}";
tf = p.create_textflow(text,
"fontname=NotoSerif-Regular fontsize=20 leading=140%");
p.fit_textflow(tf, 50, 50, 750, 350, "");
p.end_page_ext("");
p.end_document("");
} catch (PDFlibException e) {
System.err.println("PDFlib exception occurred:");
System.err.println("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() +
": " + e.get_errmsg());
exitcode = 1;
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e);
exitcode = 1;
} finally {
if (p != null) {
p.delete();
}
System.exit(exitcode);
}
}
}