Acrobat Standard Security Support

Acrobat Standard Security Support

Acrobat standard security (40-bit and 128-bit RC4 encryption) includes password protection and setting change and display permissions, such as printing and content extraction, for a PDF file.

ICEsoft recommends using the Bouncy Castle security provider, which is all ready included in the lib folder of the bundle. The following jar must be on the class path:

bcprov-jdk15.jar

If you use a different JCE 1.2.1-compliant security provider, you must set the system property org.icepdf.core.security.jceProvider appropriately. See System Properties for details.

Note: You must also code your application to respect the security settings. For example, you must disable printing if a PDF file is set with "No Printing" permissions. The ICEpdf Viewer reference implementation has been coded to respect security permissions, and you can use its source code as a model for your own application.