David, You are correct both solutions are post processing type solutions, ie. it is an additional step after the XSL-FO -> PDF conversion. I am pretty certain FOP, in its current version, cannot do it. The question for you is if you can modify your PDF server to perform this additional step, eg. first produce a temporary PDF file on disk using FOP and then call for example the pdcat tool to copy the temporary PDF file to its permanent home and apply the encryption while doing it. This is how we do it here within a Tomcat hosted servlet.
Manuel -----Original Message----- From: David B. Bitton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2002 10:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Encryption I quickly looked at iText, and that is not a XSL-FO -> PDF engine. RenderX's XEP Java app does do encryption, but they are not a viable option for us. Where in the FOP process could we hotwire some encryption? Also, the command line app won't work because we want the write the file directly to disk for immediate availability to the browser. The creating of the PDF will be the result of a SOAP call to our PDF server, posting the XSL-FO data. -- David B. Bitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.codenoevil.com Diversa ab illis virtute valemus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Mall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:17 PM Subject: RE: Encryption > To apply encryption to FOP generated PDF files we post process the files > with a command line tool called pdcat from a PDF tools set available from > http://pdf.glance.ch. > > If you are looking for an all Java solution I believe iText from > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ also allows encryption (but no decryption). > > Manuel > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2002 2:57 > To: fop-dev > Subject: Encryption > > > What is involved in encrypting the outputted PDF? Is this something that is > simple to implement? If someone can point me in the right direction, I'd > appreciate it. :) > > -- > > David B. Bitton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.codenoevil.com > > Diversa ab illis virtute valemus. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
