On Thursday 10 June 2004 2:33 pm, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Does anyone know of any Linux tool for protecting various functions in a > PDF like printing, copying text, etc. ? All teh tools that I see on google > are commercial windows tools. Doesnt Ghostscript support this? If it can > view encrypted files, it should eb able to add encryption/security levels. >
Dont bother. Got it. http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ Available on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and Solaris. From the website: ========================================== If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to: - Merge PDF Documents - Split PDF Pages into a New Document - Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required) - Encrypt Output as Desired - Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages - Report on PDF Metrics, including Metadata and Bookmarks - Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams - Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible) =========================================== No licence mentioned anywhere. However Debian package available. So I suppose it follows the DFSG guidelines. Voting currently on in Mandrake to include it. Great stuff! For Red Hat/Fedora users: - download the SuSe SRPM - extract it (rpm -ivh should put the spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS - Comment the single line containing something similar to "suse_config" in the pdftk.spec file - Run "rpmbuild -bb pdftk.spec" to build the RPM into /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 Install the new RPM! You got to install GCJ and its devel package to compile it. This package weirdly uses Java code compiled to native form from within C++. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip (at) puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Work: http://www.puroga.com Home: http://www.sandipb.net GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
