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Can not view secured pdf file

hienque — Fri, 31 May 2013 01:54:00 GMT

Hi all,I use Alfresco Community 4.2.c. My Alfresco Share could not preview secured Pdf. . The system announced "The preview could not be loaded from the server". All another documents is normal previewed. How can I fix it?

Re: Can not view secured pdf file

afaust — Fri, 31 May 2013 07:48:35 GMT

Hello,

you can only fix it by not putting secured PDFs into Alfresco or securing it with the default PDF password (as per specification, this is the empty String ""). If having the PDF secured is a requirement for you, then you will have to live with the limitation in preview functionality. The reason for this is that Alfresco - as any other PDF reader application - doesn't have access to the content unless it knows the password used in securing the PDF and thus can't transform it to Flash for the preview.

Regards
Axel

Re: Can not view secured pdf file

hienque — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:48:00 GMT

Thanks for your answer. But today, I detect a new problem. With the some file (not all files), the Collaborator can preview, but the Contributor and Consumer can not. Announce is "The preview could not be loaded from the server".

If Manager preview first, The Contributor and Consumer can preview that file again.

Re: Can not view secured pdf file

mnbrecher — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:49:09 GMT

Hi There

We use the same password on all our PDFs.
Is it possible to input our default password into Alfresco somehow?

Re: Can not view secured pdf file

monocromo — Tue, 27 May 2014 13:37:05 GMT

Hi,
I have the preview problem with pdf protected file. Our file are protected with the same password, where can I specified the password for to have the preview?
Regards.

Re: Can not view secured pdf file

mnbrecher — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:39:16 GMT

I actually asked the same question in this thread too.

Re: Can not view secured pdf file

afaust — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:08:54 GMT

Hello,

it is not possible to specify your "common password" in Alfresco. The PDF conversion features only support one password without any changes to the Alfresco system: the "default password" specified in the PDF standard. If you use passwords other than that, than you are unfortunately out-of-luck unless you have someone modify the Alfresco system (and any related third-party software) for you.

Regards
Axel