Protecting a PDF generated in OOo

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:46 PM -0300 8/9/06, Josenildo Marques wrote:
>On Monday 07 August 2006 18:55, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> PFJ <paul <at> all-the-johnsons.co.uk> writes:
>> > Is there a way that I can apply restrictions on a PDF generated in OOo
>> > so that the recipient is unable to print etc?
>> >
>> > I know I can digitally sign PDFs, but I have a specific reason for not
>> > allowing it to print.
>>
>> There are quite a few PDF viewers/processors which can bypass these
>> restrictions (some of them can be found in Fedora itself ;-) ), so I'd not
>> count on these restrictions to really work as advertised. As with any DRM,
>> really...
>
>I've tried to find and install pdf2text...But that app seems to have
>disppeared... Which other app can do that ?

pdf2text in emacs calls pdftotext from poppler-utils, which contains a
range of pdfto... utilities.
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