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 Vikrant Singh (VikrantS6451)
Accenture

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VikrantS6451 Member since 2016 3 posts
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Posted: Jul 30, 2018
Last activity: Aug 17, 2018
Posted: 30 Jul 2018 13:09 EDT
Last activity: 17 Aug 2018 12:08 EDT
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PDF Document Restrictions

Can we set Document Restrictions on PDF's like Not allowing copying Content.

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Posted: 6 years ago
Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:39 EDT
Vikrant Singh (VikrantS6451)
Accenture

Accenture
CA

Thanks. I was able to achieve the functionality using the PDFBox library which ships with PRPC. Below is the java step to add after HTMLToPDF step. 

 

Note-> Make sure we are setting the Local.PDFDocument = Param.PDFDocument before calling this step. After the step is completed we need to again set Param.PDFDocument=Local.PDFDocument. 

The username and password local variables also need to be set. If password functionality is not required we can leave that blank while calling StandardProtectionPolicy Constructor. 

Thanks.

 

 

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Thanks. I was able to achieve the functionality using the PDFBox library which ships with PRPC. Below is the java step to add after HTMLToPDF step. 

 

Note-> Make sure we are setting the Local.PDFDocument = Param.PDFDocument before calling this step. After the step is completed we need to again set Param.PDFDocument=Local.PDFDocument. 

The username and password local variables also need to be set. If password functionality is not required we can leave that blank while calling StandardProtectionPolicy Constructor. 

Thanks.

 

 

org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument doc=null;
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.AccessPermission ap=null;
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.StandardProtectionPolicy spp=null;
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.PDEncryption pd=null;
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.SecurityHandler sh=null;
 
//Get the byte array of original PDF (transferred from Param->Local Variable in previous step).
    byte[] byteArray=(byte[]) PDFDocument;
    java.io.ByteArrayInputStream bis=null;
 
    bis = new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
 
    try {
        doc=org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load( bis );
        ap=new org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.AccessPermission(byteArray);
        ap.setReadOnly();
      ap.setCanExtractContent(false);
        ap.setCanExtractForAccessibility(false);
        spp=new org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.StandardProtectionPolicy(UserName, Password, ap);
        spp.setEncryptionKeyLength(128);
        doc.protect(spp);
        java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream out = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
        doc.save(out);
        PDFDocument=out.toByteArray(); // Replace old byte array with newly generated one.
    }
    catch(Exception e) { throw new PRRuntimeException(e); }
    finally {
      if (bis!=null) {
        try { bis.close(); }
        catch(Exception e) { throw new PRRuntimeException(e); }
}
    if(doc!=null) {
      try { doc.close(); }
      catch(Exception e) { throw new PRRuntimeException(e); }
    }
    }

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Posted: 6 years ago
Posted: 31 Jul 2018 5:45 EDT
Rajeev Ranjan (ranjr)
PEGA
Principal Technical Solutions Engineer
PEG
PL

Pega has PDFUtils interface which is a wrapper on pd4ml.jar 

The option is not supported by pega OOTB and there is no way to set and do it.

However, while researching on pd4ml.jar, i could see this is possible.

http://pd4ml.com/reference.htm

...

String password = "empty";

boolean strongEncryption = true;

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Pega has PDFUtils interface which is a wrapper on pd4ml.jar 

The option is not supported by pega OOTB and there is no way to set and do it.

However, while researching on pd4ml.jar, i could see this is possible.

http://pd4ml.com/reference.htm

...

String password = "empty";

boolean strongEncryption = true;

int permissions = PD4Constants.AllowPrint | PD4Constants.AllowCopy;

 

pd4ml.setPermissions( password, permissions, strongEncryption );

...

I assume we have pd4ml jar already present, you could achieve it by using java step in activity.

Hope this helps. 


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Accepted Solution

Posted: 6 years ago
Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:39 EDT
Vikrant Singh (VikrantS6451)
Accenture

Accenture
CA

Thanks. I was able to achieve the functionality using the PDFBox library which ships with PRPC. Below is the java step to add after HTMLToPDF step. 

 

Note-> Make sure we are setting the Local.PDFDocument = Param.PDFDocument before calling this step. After the step is completed we need to again set Param.PDFDocument=Local.PDFDocument. 

The username and password local variables also need to be set. If password functionality is not required we can leave that blank while calling StandardProtectionPolicy Constructor. 

Thanks.

 

 

Show More

Thanks. I was able to achieve the functionality using the PDFBox library which ships with PRPC. Below is the java step to add after HTMLToPDF step. 

 

Note-> Make sure we are setting the Local.PDFDocument = Param.PDFDocument before calling this step. After the step is completed we need to again set Param.PDFDocument=Local.PDFDocument. 

The username and password local variables also need to be set. If password functionality is not required we can leave that blank while calling StandardProtectionPolicy Constructor. 

Thanks.

 

 

org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument doc=null;
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.AccessPermission ap=null;
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.StandardProtectionPolicy spp=null;
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.PDEncryption pd=null;
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.SecurityHandler sh=null;
 
//Get the byte array of original PDF (transferred from Param->Local Variable in previous step).
    byte[] byteArray=(byte[]) PDFDocument;
    java.io.ByteArrayInputStream bis=null;
 
    bis = new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
 
    try {
        doc=org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load( bis );
        ap=new org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.AccessPermission(byteArray);
        ap.setReadOnly();
      ap.setCanExtractContent(false);
        ap.setCanExtractForAccessibility(false);
        spp=new org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.StandardProtectionPolicy(UserName, Password, ap);
        spp.setEncryptionKeyLength(128);
        doc.protect(spp);
        java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream out = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
        doc.save(out);
        PDFDocument=out.toByteArray(); // Replace old byte array with newly generated one.
    }
    catch(Exception e) { throw new PRRuntimeException(e); }
    finally {
      if (bis!=null) {
        try { bis.close(); }
        catch(Exception e) { throw new PRRuntimeException(e); }
}
    if(doc!=null) {
      try { doc.close(); }
      catch(Exception e) { throw new PRRuntimeException(e); }
    }
    }

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