I'm seeing the same issue... You might want to report it in the PDFBox JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX Also, ap.getPermissionBytes() returns -4, which is odd.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:02 PM, KUCHI BHARGAV <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > I am working on PDF document features extraction > > i want to know whether the given pdf is printable or not > i have used the below code snippet to test this scenario. > > public void testDocument(String dirfile){ > PDDocument doc=null; > try { > doc = PDDocument.load(dirfile); > } catch (IOException ie) { > System.out.println(ie); > } > > AccessPermission ap = doc.getCurrentAccessPermission(); > if (ap == null) { > System.out.println("Cannnot read access permission"); > } > System.out.println(ap.canPrint()); > } > > The above highlighted code is allways returning true > > irrespective of the document print option ? > > is there any alternative way to check the pdf printing feature ? > > > Thanks & Regards, > Bhargav K >

