On 12/15/11 1:03 PM, "mkl" <[email protected]> wrote:
>To Reader-enable a document, you need some Adobe secret with which the
>documents are marked (signed, partially encoded, howsoever). Thus, only
>Adobe software can do this...  and maybe rogue software by people who
>pirated that secret (some older schemes had been cracked or circumvented),
>but iText definitively is not such rogue software.

Actually, there is nothing secret or undocumented about it - except our
Private key.

The methods used for "Reader Enabling" a PDF are fully documented in ISO
32000-1, and in fact at least one other vendor uses it in the same way we
do - to enable extra features in their free viewer.  As the method relies
on public key cryptography, and only Adobe has access to our Private key -
THAT is why no one else can enable for Adobe Reader.

Leonard


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