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Adam commented on PDFBOX-912:
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I don't personally need that library, but I'd encourage you to propose
it on the PDFBOX developer mailing list. All the people I talked to on
there were very helpful in giving feedback on how to do it in a way
which would be most useful to others.
>From what I have experienced, if you need an open source library to do
something, the best thing to do is:
1.) Ask on the developer's mailing list if the feature already exists
2.) Ask for suggestions on where/how the feature should be added
3.) Whether you get any response to either of the inquiries above, just
implement the feature yourself and post the patches to the mailing list.
The worst case senerio is that the patches don't get accepted but
library does what you need it to do, and the patches are in the mailing
list archives for other people who really need the changes.
Best of luck in your coding & signatures. :-)
Regards,
Adam
> PDF signing interface and improvments
> -------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-912
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-912
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: PDFReader, PDModel, PDModel.AcroForm, Writing
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Reporter: Thomas Chojecki
> Assignee: Adam Nichols
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.6.0
>
> Attachments: cos_object_improvement_patch.txt,
> fields_annotations_patch.txt, interface_options_patch.txt, io_patch.txt,
> main_documents_patch.txt, parser_patch.txt, signature_exception_patch.txt,
> test.pdf, test_signed.pdf, writer_patch.txt
>
>
> This is a first version of a signing interface for pdfbox. There are some
> design issues i could not handle without rewriting too much of the code.
> Here we go:
> - incremental update support (tested for signatures with pdf/a
> compatibility), not compatible with encrypted documents nor with xref-streams
> - cos object improvment
> -- COSString with ability to force writing hexbin for given string
> -- COSBase with ability to write direct into a dictionary (that means if
> this is set, no indirect object will be wrote) (sry hard to explain what i
> mean, actualy needed for incremental update to lower the rate of indirect
> objects)
> -- COSBase with ability to force writing object (this hook help the
> COSWriter write needed objects for inkremental update)
> -- COSName added new names
> -- COSDocument some getter and setter for handling new signature and
> incremental features
> - SignatureException with some exceptions for handling the bunch of new
> possible errors
> -Parser improvments
> -- PDFParser saves now the position of the last startxref
> -- VisualSignatureParser (hook for parsing visual signature templates)
> (it's only for prepared visualisation that should be merged with the document)
> -IO improvments
> -- COSFilterInput helps to find the proper content that should be hashed /
> signed
> -- COSStandardOutputStream is tricky, it helps the writer to jump to the
> right place in the document
> -- COSWriter got some improvments for incremental update
> -- COSWriterXRefEntry needed for incremental updates and writing the new
> Xref table
> - PDDocument
> -- got a new method addSignature with the needed implementation (do the
> whole signature stuff)
> -- cleanup
> - Fields and Annotations
> -- PDSignature represent the signature dictionary
> -- PDSignatureFild / Annotation are the visible & unvisible signature
> representations
> - Signature Interface and options
> -- SignatureInterface the interface that shall be implemented for proper
> signing
> -- SignatureOptions, some additional options for signing
> Patch splited into pieces
> sry for spelling, didn't include a spellchecker for english.
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