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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Karol Bryd
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] PDfStamper and protected documents
>
> Hello
>
> This is my case:
>
> * my watermarking application was able to apply watermarks and change
> security settings using old iText release (
> itext-paulo-153) even on password protected documents (screenshot of
> document properties window is here:
> http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/~kbryd/itext_protected.png )
>
> * now with the recent version of itext I get "PdfReader not opened
> with owner password" exception and according to
> http://itext.ugent.be/library/question.php?id=497 this is not a bug.
>
> My question is: how can I workaround it and make recent iText process
> protected documents _without_ owner password (I don't know it and I
> have thousands of documents which are password protected and only
> print and view is permitted).
>
You can't unless you use an older iText version or hack iText.
> And perhaps one more question to understand it: does it mean that in
> old iText versions passwords were not taken into account?
>
They were taken into account in the sense that you could open a doc without an
user password. Adobe didn't like it, as it could lead to abuse, and the change
was made.
Paulo
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