As it is right now. Someone uploads a document and openoffice is converting them to .pdf (with jodconverter). Some of the files are uploaded as .pdf both scanned and pdf created with Acrobat. I'm trying to have my servelet make a "preview" of the all the pdf's. Right now I'm just stamping a logo over the bottom 2/3rd's of the page with a message "Preview only shows 1/3rd of each page. Please purchase to view entire document". This is not working because of copying under the stamp for the non scanned pdfs.
I've tried to encrypt the docs to disallow everything that I can, but my reader (Document Viewer 2.24.1 Ubuntu 8.10) doesn't seem to respect that and I can still copy and paste just fine. I really don't want to go back to the slowness and huge file sizes associated with Graphicsmagick (not to mention Imagemagick!), but being 100% open source it looks like that may be my only option. Thanks for your time and help with this. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:29:12AM +0100, 1T3XT info wrote: > Ryan Moser wrote: > > I'll try to clear up what i need to do and hopefully you can steer me in > > the right direction. > > Your requirement is still not clear. > > You want to cover 2/3 of a page with a blank rectangle? > That's possible. > > But: if the covered text isn't a scanned image, > people will be able to copy/paste the text, > unless you encrypt the file and disallow copying > (in that case, people also won't be able to copy/paste > the text in the upper 1/3 of the page). > > Note that this kind of requirement is rather absurd, > because the "protection" is only psychological. > The "hidden" text will always remain there. > If you work for a legal institute as a contractor and > you fool the customer into believing this is a safe solution, > you're bound to get in trouble. > -- > This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA > http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
