Hacking PDFs [slightly OT]
Hacking PDFs [slightly OT]
- Subject: Hacking PDFs [slightly OT]
- From: Markus Ruggiero <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:59:53 +0200
| Folks,
I have a large D2W application that generates tons of product spec sheets as PDF. The customer requires that all the PDFs are copy restricted (no copy allowed, just view and print). That all works.
Now the customer has the idea that I should bundle all the generated PDFs into one large PDF. I can do that, no problem. BUT (there is always one, isn't there?) there are externally created PDFs (also copy restricted) that I need to include into the compound PDF. Those 3rd party PDFs are out of my control. I suggested to bundle the PDFs into a ZIP archive but the customer wants ONE large PDF. No, they don't care about inconsistent page numbering, they just want ONE PDF with 150+ pages and one cover page with internal links to the embedded documents.
Here is my problem: I have no idea how to do this. All the code I have found cannot deal with protected PDFs (and I have no way to unprotect them easily). The customer is even willing to accept something that can circumvent the protection. The only way I know of to get rid of the restriction is by opening the PDF in ColorSync on the Mac and then print to pdf. However the production app runs on Solaris, there is no Mac around. I might be able to talks the customer into buying a Mac just for this kind of processing. But this is really really last resort.
Any ideas? Any PDF guru out there? Thanks for any help, I urgently need it.
---markus---
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