General ⇒ Protect document

[deltaone]

Hello

I want to protect my pdf document using LaTeX. Some people on the net uses Acrobat Pro or other free/shareware softwares but how to do that only with LaTeX ?

How to include the date of the latest compilation to be saved in the document property 'not the document body' to prove that this document is for the author. And witch package class do those tasks ?

Thinks very mush

[localghost]

[...] I want to protect my pdf document using LaTeX. Some people on the net uses Acrobat Pro or other free/shareware softwares but how to do that only with LaTeX ?

This can't be done with LaTeX directly. But with pdftk there is a command line tool which allows to do that. The pdftk Builder offers a GUI (on Windows systems) to access the functions of the tool more comfortable.

[...] How to include the date of the latest compilation to be saved in the document property 'not the document body' to prove that this document is for the author. And witch package class do those tasks ? [...]

You could use the hyperref package and give the according information to the pdfproducer key.

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\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
  pdftitle={Title},
  pdfsubject={Subject of the document},
  pdfauthor={Author, Author},
  pdfkeywords={Keywords},
  pdfproducer={LaTeX with hyperref, \today},
}

Other possibilities may be described in the manual. I didn't test this but I see no difficulties.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[deltaone]

[...] I want to protect my pdf document using LaTeX. Some people on the net uses Acrobat Pro or other free/shareware softwares but how to do that only with LaTeX ?

This can't be done with LaTeX directly. But with pdftk there is a command line tool which allows to do that. The pdftk Builder offers a GUI (on Windows systems) to access the functions of the tool more comfortable.

[...] How to include the date of the latest compilation to be saved in the document property 'not the document body' to prove that this document is for the author. And witch package class do those tasks ? [...]

You could use the hyperref package and give the according information to the pdfproducer key.

Code: Select all

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
  pdftitle={Title},
  pdfsubject={Subject of the document},
  pdfauthor={Author, Author},
  pdfkeywords={Keywords},
  pdfproducer={LaTeX with hyperref, \today},
}

Other possibilities may be described in the manual. I didn't test this but I see no difficulties.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

Thinks very mush.