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Is it possible to print a secured document (policy) through livecycle web services?

May 11, 2011 2:04 PM

Hi,

 

I've been tryiong to a print secured document through Adobe Livecycle’s web service interface (Digital Rights Management and OutputService).

I made a research in the documentation of the livecycle’s web services and founded some methods about printing PDF files (sendToPrinter).

I developed a standalone application that prints a PDF file using the webservices, but it did not worked with a document with a security policy applied to it.

 

Did you know anyway to print a secured pdf using livecycle rights management webservices or any other RTP?

 
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    May 11, 2011 2:08 PM   in reply to Landim, Arthur

    Have you tried to unlock the document before printing???... I'm not sure if this could work...

    Read this...

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/LiveCycle/9.5/WorkbenchHelp/WS92d06802c76a badb-1cc35bda128261a20dd-6a8d.html

     
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    May 12, 2011 5:52 AM   in reply to hectorcastro

    You will need to "unlock" the document first.  Remember, a rights managed PDF is encrypted and you must be an "authenticated" user to open\view the document, and the user must have sufficient permissions to do things like print.  The "unlock" operation allows the document to be "opened" on the server side.  You will also need to make sure that you configure the process that is using the "unlock" operation to "Run As" a user that is specified in the policy and has sufficient permissions.

     

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    Steve

     
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    May 17, 2011 5:15 AM   in reply to Landim, Arthur

    I'm not clear on what you did.  Did you "revoke" the document, or "remove" the policy from the document?

     

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    Steve

     
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    May 19, 2011 6:36 AM   in reply to Landim, Arthur

    No, there is no "plug-in" required on the server.  I am still confused...  if you "revoke" a document, then you are removing the ability for anyone to open the document.  If the docuemnt can't be opened, it can't be printed.

     

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    May 20, 2011 9:17 AM   in reply to Landim, Arthur

    Arthur

     

    You will not be able to convert the policy protected PDF to PostScript.  I explained this earlier in another thread...  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/850893?tstart=0

     

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    Steve

     
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    May 20, 2011 11:56 AM   in reply to Landim, Arthur

    Arthur

     

    it is no possible to print a secured file (security policy) file without  first opening the document on adobe reader/pro or the microsoft office  Livecycle DRM plugin?

    ANSWER: If you are printing from the client, the document must be opened (user must authenticate to RM) and the permissions in the policy must "Allow Print"  You cannot convert the protected document to some other format (i.e PostScript)

     

     

    Is there anyway to create an cmd program, without graphical user  interface,  that starts a livecycle process to print a secured (with  security policy) document?

    The program would be like:

    C:\app\printSecuredFile.exe "PathToFile.pdf" "username" "password"

    ANSWER:  I don't know for sure about writing a custom application to do this, but I doubt it. I do know that there is no way to use Acrobat or Reader from the command line to open and print a policy protected pdf.  There is no way to pass in the user name and password.  You can launch Reader from the command line and specify the PDF to open, if the PDF has a policy applied the RM login dialog will be displayed.

     

    The Developer FAQ is available from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/Acrobat_SDK_developer_faq.pdf #page=24

     

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    Steve

     
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