I've generated a PDF using Itext which I can open but when I try to print I get an error saying than the document is not printable. The document is generated without any non-printable flag.
Any hint?
Thanks
If the print option in Adobe Reader is not disabled then the document has no print restrictions. If the error appears when you try to print the document, it is possible that the page content is damaged. I've seen PDF files that Adobe Reader could display but it showed an error when trying to print or save them.
this can only happen if you change the permission of
the file.
Did you perhaps copy a PdfStamper sample that has a line disabling the
print
unless
There are 10 entries under Document Restrictions Summary in the security tab.
in PdfWriter,
set
ALLOW_PRINTING = 2052
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The below is the line of code I'm using it currently which converts ppt to pdf, however I want to protect pdf , Is there any possibility
PowerPointapp.ActivePresentation.SaveAs path & pdffileNm & ".pdf", 32
This is not possible with the default vba functions available!
See this, not tested by me, example of using an external library to save pdf with password in the past.
Protecting a PDF is not permanent, once the file is opened (using the users decryption key provided by handing over the password), the contents are available to the new owner to add comment or fill forms or otherwise modify by print or text edit or remove watermarks.
Adobe reader will use different parts of those keys to reduce user writes, but no other editor has to.
Browsers need to edit PDF in exactly the same way so my Firefox pdf reader allows me to correct / change web page content or the embedded pdf contents, exactly the same as any other browser or pdf viewer or editor can. The only protected PDF is an unpublished one.
I am trying to print a section of an existing pdf to a new pdf. The original is searchable and selectable but the new pdf cannot do either. I am using "adobe acrobat reader DC" and print via "Microsoft Print to PDF". Unsure if there is any other relevant information.
After searching for a period of time I could not find an answer that allows for direct PDF to PDF print.
I did find a workaround however.
I downloaded a free software called PrimoPDF. Once installed, PrimoPDF becomes a printer option within Adobe acrobat reader. I then selected my desired pages and printed to PrimoPDf instead of Microsoft Print to PDF. This Generated a .ps file. I then imported the .ps file into PrimoPDF application and was able to generate a .pdf from that. The newly generated pdf was searchable and selectable and exactly what I needed.
Hopefully someone else finds this useful in the future.
Generally refrying (printing to PostScript then converting back to PDF) is a bad idea. The reason that Microsoft Print to PDF created a file that wasn't searchable is because when Adobe Reader detects that the printer it is targeting isn't capable of rendering the PDF correctly because of any number of reasons, like it doesn't have the right fonts for example, it will render the PDF itself and send an image to the printer. A simpler PDF probably would have worked just fine.
You are much better off getting a tool that will simply allow you to extract the pages you need to a new file rather than printing.
I'm creating a PDF using iTextSharp and it contains some fillable form fields. What I need, is to somehow set it up so that when those form fields are filled in and the resulting PDF is saved (in one of the commercially-available PDF readers like Adobe's Reader), I need those form fields to be fixed text (no longer editable).
Is there any way to do this?
As a comment suggests, this sounds like "flattening the document".
The issue with that process is that it is not available in (Adobe) Reader; it would require Acrobat, or server-side help.
On the other hand, some mobile PDF viewers do actually offer flattening when saving.
The workaround for Reader is to set the fields to read-only when saving the document. You would do this in the willSave Document Action by looping through the fields and setting them to readonly.
Simply Print your document as PDF. This will flatten the file.
For this
1. Install Adobe PDF Printer or CutePDF or some similar tool.
2. From your document. Select File -> Print.
3. Select Printer as the tool you installed in Step 1.
4. Your document will be a flattened, non-editable PDF now.
I have a pdf file which got exported from BIRT report. I tried opening that pdf file in adobe acrobat and tried printing it. It got printed properly.
But when I try to open the same pdf file using PDF complete and print it nothing gets printed. But the pdf file is getting opened in PDF complete properly.
Is birt pdf report not compatible with printing using pdf complete or so?
BIRT is compatible with creating printable PDF.
There is insufficeint information here about discover the users specific issue.
What version of BIRT is being used?
How is the PDF being 'exported' (as opposed to open as)?
How is the PDF being saved?
I have looked for weeks and I keep hitting dead ends. I know you can create a text or image link and tell it to "print page" in a browser. But so far, I can't get it to print a document, specifically a pdf. I would like the print dialog to show after the link is clicked and yes, the pdf linked to has been printed.
Why does this seem to be such an impossible feat? I have seen it work in a Flash movie, but since I cannot access the native file I cannot see how it was done.
Any advice?
Thanks.
Many of today's printers support direct PDF printing. Lexmark, HP, Xerox to name a few all have this on most of the 'business' printers. On these devices simply sending the PDF file directly to the device over LPR, port 9100, or some other mechanism will result in a printed document. Some devices even support URLs. I do know that Lexmark had some devices that a URL could be sent to the printer as as long as it had access to the URL it would pull the document and print. In this case it supported basic HTML, JPEG, TIF, and PDF.
Hope this helps.
A PDF must be rendered as an image before it can be printed. Usually when you're printing a PDF file on your desktop you could simply right-click on the file and select Print and if you have Adobe Reader or an alternative application set as your default PDF viewer, then the PDF that you have selected will be opened automatically -- at this stage the PDF is rendered as an image -- and then the printing process will begin.
But if there is no access to a PDF viewer that can render the PDF and then print it, then you won't be able to print the PDF. Usually if you have Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, etc, installed then when you click on a URL to a PDF then the PDF will open within the PDF viewer within the browser and you will be able to print it.
Alternatively, you could find a PDF SDK that silently renders a PDF as an image and then sends that to the printer, without the need to have a PDF viewer installed on your machine.