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Is there any way to password protect the pdf file generated through PDFInclude?

Any idea how to expand PDF Include to able to handle digital signatures?
I found sources only for .NET libraries/wrappers, the PDF reference is a little bit unclear for me.
Any idea how to start?

Good afternoon!

I´m trying to fill a PDF Form with PDFInclude. I've investigated some and I've found that the problem is the PDF Version.

I opened the PDF Sample "sample/support/POForm62.pdf" and saw that the version is a.5 (Acrobat 6.x) but when I use Adobe Acrobat 9.0 to create the PDF Form with the same "Version" this file doesn´t work.

The idea is great... Create a Word Document, print it in PDF Form and later create the PDF Formm so that fill it with PDFInclude... but... It doesn't work!!!

The common errors that I got are:
+ Error Page ID
+ Wrong PDF (PDF created)

We are using PDFInclude to take PDF templates with Tags embedded and do a replacement of these at run time to generate populated documents. Until now we have always used PDF 5 to create our templates, but have now been moved to the newer version 9 of PDF. However the templates generated by 9 arent working with Pdf Include.

Are there other products we can use to create the PDF templates? Ive read that OpenOffice can be used, but I cant see in there how I create a Tag in the document.

Thanks

Is possible create a shading rectangle?

I have a rectangle created with RUN pdf_rect2(...) but i would like that this rectangle has a shading.

Thanks.

The wrap text functions don't check if UseTags=TRUE. Doesn't this throws pdf_text_width() and pdf_GetNumFittingChars() calculations off leaving them in?

Stripping the tags, StripBoldItal() + strip color", would return a closer width calculation excluding the bold/italic font width differences. If each word is stripped in the text parameter sent to pdf_text_width() then the original word, including tags, could be appended to the line.

Approximately line 2076 in PDFextract.p ProcessFontDescriptorDictionary:

IF ENTRY(4, text-temp, " ") = "R" THEN DO:
curr-ptr = SEEK(INPUT).

This will error out when text-temp contains less than 4 " " delimited entries.

I changed it to:

IF NUM-ENTRIES(text-temp, " ") > 3
AND ENTRY(4, text-temp, " ") = "R" THEN DO:
curr-ptr = SEEK(INPUT).

Has anyone else run into this or is it something unique to my environment?

TIA.

I'm following the example "Using an External PDF Page (2)" in the PowerPoint doc.

I've solved some run-time problems. but now the page it creates is blank except for the information I sent to it. It's my understanding it should have created an invoice based on samples\support\invoice.pdf.

Any suggestions/directions are much appreciated.

The resulting PDF is attached.

Here's the code I used:

{PDFinclude/pdf_inc.i "THIS-PROCEDURE"}

DEFINE VARIABLE i_Counter AS INTEGER NO-UNDO.

&scop PDFIdir d:\WDS\CCI\PDFinclude

Hello,

We've been using pdf include with several of our customers now and all works well. Except for one customer: it takes more than 5 minutes to generate a 24-page pdf, whereas this normally only takes about 20 seconds with ohter customers' systems.

The client is working in a Terminal Server environment with a very tight security policy. We suspect that this might be causing the slowdown, but we don't know what to look for.

Could you give us possible reasons for a slowdown? Have you ever heard from other people that reported the same problem?

Any idea how can I change TrueType subsets?

I need some special south-slav characters, for example capital C with caron but if I use Arial font with PDF include, I see only the basic subset. If I check Arial font in Word (Insert symbol) I see this character in Subset "Extended Latin A".

thanks,
Biga

p.s. I tried create new AFM file with TT2PT1 utility and use -l (language) switch but did not work. (there is latin1,2,4,5 options but no extended latin A,B...)