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Apache™ FOP supports encryption of PDF output, thanks to Patrick C. Lankswert and others. This feature is commonly used to prevent unauthorized viewing, printing, editing, copying text from the document and doing annotations. It is also possible to ask the user for a password in order to view the contents. Note that there already exist third party applications which can decrypt an encrypted PDF without effort and allow the aforementioned operations, therefore the degree of protection is limited.
For further information about features and restrictions regarding PDF encryption, look at the documentation coming with Adobe Acrobat or the technical documentation on the Adobe web site.
<renderermime="application/pdf"><encryption-params><user-password>testuserpass</user-password><owner-password>testownerpass</owner-password><noprint/><nocopy/><noedit/><noannotations/><encryption-length>128</encryption-length><encrypt-metadata>false</encrypt-metadata></encryption-params></renderer>Encryption is enabled by supplying any of the encryption related options.
An owner password is set with the-o option. This password is actually used as encryption key. Many tools for PDF processing ask for this password to disregard any restriction imposed on the PDF document.
If no owner password has been supplied but FOP was asked to apply some restrictions, a random password is used. In this case it is obviously impossiible to disregard restrictions in PDF processing tools.
A user password, supplied with the-u option, will cause the PDF display software to ask the reader for this password in order to view the contents of the document. If no user password was supplied, viewing the content is not restricted.
Further restrictions can be imposed by using the following command-line options:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-noprint | disable printing |
-nocopy | disable copy/paste of content |
-noedit | disable editing in Adobe Acrobat |
-noannotations | disable editing of annotations |
-nofillinforms | disable filling in forms |
-noaccesscontent | disable text and graphics extraction for accessibility purposes |
-noassembledoc | disable assembling documents |
-noprinthq | disable high quality printing |
When FOP is embedded in another Java application you need to set an options map on the renderer. These are the supported options:
| Option | Description | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| encryption-length | The encryption length in bit | Any multiple of 8 between 40 and 128, or 256 | 128 |
| ownerPassword | The owner password | String | |
| userPassword | The user password | String | |
| allowPrint | Allows/disallows printing of the PDF | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
| allowCopyContent | Allows/disallows copy/paste of content | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
| allowEditContent | Allows/disallows editing in Adobe Acrobat | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
| allowEditAnnotations | Allows/disallows editing of annotations | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
| allowFillInForms | Allows/disallows filling in forms | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
| allowAccessContent | Allows/disallows text and graphics extraction for accessibility purposes | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
| allowAssembleDocument | Allows/disallows assembling document | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
| allowPrintHq | Allows/disallows high quality printing | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
| encrypt-metadata | Whether to encrypt the Metadata stream | "TRUE" or "FALSE" | "TRUE" |
An example to enable PDF encryption in Java code:
importorg.apache.fop.pdf.PDFEncryptionParams;[..]FOUserAgentuserAgent=fopFactory.newFOUserAgent();userAgent.getRendererOptions().put("encryption-params",newPDFEncryptionParams(null,"password",false,false,true,true,true));Fopfop=fopFactory.newFop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF,userAgent);[..]The parameters for the constructor of PDFEncryptionParams are:
userPassword: String, may be null
ownerPassword: String, may be null
allowPrint: true if printing is allowed
allowCopyContent: true if copying content is allowed
allowEditContent: true if editing content is allowed
allowEditAnnotations: true if editing annotations is allowed
allowFillInForms: true if filling in forms is allowed.
allowAccessContent: true if extracting text and graphics is allowed
allowAssembleDocument: true if assembling document is allowed
allowPrintHq: true if printing to high quality is allowed
encryptMetadata: true if the Metadata stream should be encrypted
Alternatively, you can set each value separately in the Map provided by FOUserAgent.getRendererOptions() by using the following keys:
user-password: String
owner-password: String
noprint: Boolean or "true"/"false"
nocopy: Boolean or "true"/"false"
noedit: Boolean or "true"/"false"
noannotations: Boolean or "true"/"false"
nofillinforms: Boolean or "true"/"false"
noaccesscontent: Boolean or "true"/"false"
noassembledoc: Boolean or "true"/"false"
noprinthq: Boolean or "true"/"false"
encrypt-metadata: Boolean or "true"/"false"
The password length is restricted to a maximum of 32 bytes if the encryption-length is 128 or less, and to a maximum of 127 bytes if the encryption-length is 256 (longer passwords will be truncated to the maximum allowed).
The PDF encryption implemented in FOP does not need external libraries to perform encryption. A recent JDK (1.5+) is sufficient. However, encryption using keys with 256 bits requires the installation of the JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy files from Oracle.
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