Re: Let PDFLib hear from you regarding Ruby bindings

Mathieu Arnold
2005-11-12T15:29:55Z

+-le 12/11/2005 09:56 -0500, Austin Ziegler écrivait :
| On 11/11/05, snacktime
<snacktime-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
|> I was unable to find a ruby pdf library that could do encryption or set
|> permissions on a pdf file.  I used pdfwriter and then had to do the rest
by
|> calling a java app.
|
| If you''d be willing to work with me, PDF::Writer is *supposed* to be
| able to do basic (40-bit, at least) encryption and permissions
| settings. I believe that there were definite issues and that the
| changes that I''ve made in a private branch (that I''m holding
off on
| committing to the public repository because it breaks a few public
| APIs as well as drastically changes a lot of private APIs) may be able
| to do this better.

I''ve not been able to use encryption with PDF::Writer at all, it just
borks
out, maybe I''m missing some ruby module, but I doubt it.

| Long-term, PDF::Writer will be able to do all of this, but I''m just
| one person and PDF::Writer is currently an all-volunteer effort. On
| top of that, I''m genuinely busy with very interesting work at my day
| job.

Have you looked at the patch I put in rubyforge ?
I''m using it a lot and I''d love to improve things :-)

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Mathieu Arnold