Password protect an iBot attachment

Question

Hello
I have a requirement to distribute a report from Answers via an iBot but have the PDF produced password protected by a specific password. Has anybody any ideas on how this can be achieved? I know it can be done through Publisher but the preference is not to maintain an Answers and a Publisher version of the report.
Thanks in advance.
Dom.

Answer 1

Dom,
There's a PHP library http://www.idsecuritysuite.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/fpdi.zip that allows you to password protect PDF file
Function would look like this (i took it from the web):
<?php
function pdfEncrypt ($origFile, $password, $destFile){
//include the FPDI protection http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi-protection-128/
require_once(’fpdi/FPDI_Protection.php’);
$pdf =& new FPDI_Protection();
// set the format of the destinaton file, in our case 6×9 inch
$pdf->FPDF(’P', ‘in’, array(’6′,’9′));
//calculate the number of pages from the original document
$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile($origFile);
// copy all pages from the old unprotected pdf in the new one
for ($loop = 1; $loop <= $pagecount; $loop++) {
$tplidx = $pdf->importPage($loop);
$pdf->addPage();
$pdf->useTemplate($tplidx);
// protect the new pdf file, and allow no printing, copy etc and leave only reading allowed
$pdf->SetProtection(array(), $password, ”;
$pdf->Output($destFile, ‘F’);
return $destFile;
//password for the pdf file (I suggest using the email adress of the purchaser)
$password = “[email protected]”;
//name of the original file (unprotected)
$origFile = “book.pdf”;
//name of the destination file (password protected and printing rights removed)
$destFile =“book_protected.pdf”;
//encrypt the book and create the protected file
pdfEncrypt($origFile, $password, $destFile );
?>You could invoke this process with advanced settings of your Ibot....or you could find/program a custom Java program that would do this...good luck