Internet Explorer -selainten epämiellyttävä ominaisuus paljastaa turhankin paljon tietoja PDF-tiedostoista ja niiden tekijöistä. Internet Explorerilla Adoben PDF-formaattiin tulostettuun sivuun jää selkokielisenä tiedoston alkuperäinen sijainti koneella, jolla se on laadittu. Pahimmillaan näkyville jää myös käyttäjätunnus, kerrotaan uutisissa. Lue uutisista lisää asiasta.

I noticed How to use Adobe Acrobat to Optimize and Reduce PDF File Size lists two PDF version tutorials,
PDF version tutorial of Adobe Acrobat 6 solution to optimize and redue file size,
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr6optimize/acr6optimize.pdf
PDF version tutorial of Adobe Acrobat 7 solution to optimize and redue file size,
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7optimize/acr7optimize.pdf
and I just wonder why they do not release the tutorials for Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Acrobat 9.

Il Portable Document Format, comunemente abbreviato PDF, è un formato di file basato su un linguaggio di descrizione di pagina sviluppato da Adobe Systems nel 1993 per rappresentare documenti in modo indipendente dall’hardware e dal software utilizzati per generarli o per visualizzarli. A volte capita che la lettura dei file PDF è bloccata tramite una fastidiosa password, che la maggior parte delle volte viene inserita per permettere la lettura del PDF ad una cerchia ristretta di persone. Esistono però tantissimi software e servizi online che permettono di trovare la password dei file PDF tra cui il mio preferito: PDF Pirate. Vediamo come utilizzare questo servizio online:

PDF Pirate

1. Andate su PDF Pirate e caricate il file PDF da decodificare facendo click su Sfoglia;
2. Aspettate che il file venga decriptato;
3. Fate click su Download.

Fatto! Al prossimo articolo, ciao…

When Search WordPress.com, I noticed a article  PDF Tools, it introduces some small PDF tools and all developed in Python.

–from 20 PDF Online Tool Converter for FREE

the Acrobat User Community is the perfect way to learn more about the latest features, meet other users, and share ideas with other members and Acrobat experts. Our goal is to provide the type of educational resources and user-to-user support that appeal to Acrobat users of all levels and professional backgrounds.

Learn how to work within your PDF documents to implement simple changes—without having to edit the original source file—with our ‘how to’ tutorials and videos.

Tutorials

• Acrobat 9 to the Rescue
  by Donna Baker
• Understanding Acrobat’s Optimizer
  by Duff Johnson
• Cleaning up your PDF Documents
  by Donna Baker
• Optimizing a PDF Document
  by Donna Baker
• How to Rearrange Pages in a PDF Document
  by Adobe Systems
• Optimize PDF files with better results
  by James Dempsey
• How do I copy-and-paste editable text from PDF to Word?
  by Lori DeFurio
• Sharing PDF files online
  by Donna Baker
• Using Bookmarks for Navigating Documents
  by Ted Padova

Videos

• Adding Watermarks to your PDF Documents
  by Janet Frick
• Bookmark Basics: Part 1
  by Geoff Blake
• Bookmark Basics: Part 2
  by Geoff Blake
• Adding Headers/Footers to your PDF Documents
  by Tim Plummer
• Two methods to replace pages in a PDF file
  by Rick Borstein
• Optimizing your PDF Document
  by Ian Campbell

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (August 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596006551
• ISBN-13: 978-0596006556
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.7 inches

You are working hard to achieve that perfect paperless office but there are some things that still require paperwork. For instance, you just received a contract via electronic fax that you are supposed to sign and fax it back. Or there’s a PDF / Word document waiting in your email inbox that you need to print on paper, put your handwritten signatures, scan the signed copy and send it back to the client again via email.

That process is both time consuming and forces you to do something that you are trying so hard to avoid (i.e., use paper). So if you are looking to eliminate paper from the loop, here are some software tools, web services and workarounds that will help you capture your signature directly on the electronic file without requiring paper or ink.

How to Digitally Sign Documents

The first step is to create a digital image of your signature – there are multiple ways of doing that:

Option #1. If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or any touch sensitive mobile device, use an app like “Fountain Pen” or “Sketch Pad” to draw your signature using your fingers and then transfer the image to your computer.

Option #2. If you have don’t have access to a touch phone or a scanner, put your signatures on a white piece of paper and take a photograph of that paper using your digital camera or even the camera of your mobile phone (some tips).

Option #3. Alternatively, you can use any graphics software (like MS Paint), an online image editor (like Splash Up) or even Google Docs (see video) to draw your signature with the mouse pointer. I like the Google Docs options since it creates a transparent stamp of your signature.

Option #4. Go to Live Signature, draw your signature on the screen and click the “Create Signature” button to download your signature as an image.

Now that you have the written signature in image form, the next step involves putting that e-sign image into the document.

If the contract or agreement is in Microsoft Word or any other common editable format, things are pretty easy. Open the document in any Word processing software (or Google Docs) and insert the signature image inline. Save the document as PDF and email it back to the client.

How to Sign a PDF Document

If the initial document is in Adobe PDF format, you need to follow a couple of extra steps because, unless you have a PDF editor like Adobe Acrobat, editing PDF files is not always straight-forward.

Option #1: Convert the PDF document to Word using this free web service, add the image to the Word file (as in the previous example) and export the document as PDF to prevent editing. The PDF to Word service may not always replicate the exact formatting and appearance of the original PDF file but it’s still very close especially in the case of text documents.

To password protect your signed-PDF documents, open the document inside PDF Hammer, add a password restriction and re-export it as PDF.

Option #2: If the PDF document that you have to sign is long or includes complex formatting, conversion may not be the right option for you. In that case, you have two choices:

2 a: PDF X-Change – This is awesome PDF Viewer for Windows that also includes some very useful editing features.

Import the signature image into the Stamps Palette, open the PDF file that you want to sign and use the stamps tool (under Tools -> Comment & Markup) to sign anywhere in the document. You can then export the signed document as PDF and none of the original formatting should be lost.

2 b: OpenOffice Draw – The latest version of OpenOffice 3.1 along with this free Sun Extension can be used as a PDF editor.

Once installed, click the OpenOffice icon on your desktop and open the PDF document – this will auto open in OpenOffice.org Draw. Now choose Insert -> Picture -> From File to insert the signature image anywhere in the PDF file.

The good part about OpenOffice is that it is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platform but there’s no individual install for the Draw module so you’ll have to download the full 150 installer of OpenOffice.org but choose to install only Draw at setup.

Web Apps for Electronic Signature

The options discussed above are handy if you have to sign documents but what if you are on the other side of the fence and need another party to sign your document electronically.

In that case, you should consider using web based signatures services from either EchoSign or Right Signature – they both work on similar lines. You upload a PDF or Word document that needs to signed and also specify the email addresses of people who have to sign that file. The recipients can open the document inside their web browser, add their signature (with the timestamp) and done.

You can then download the signed document on to your own computer. There’s no software to install and no sending fax messages back and forth. Both Echo Sign and Right Signature are paid services but trial users can send up to 5 documents for free.

Related: Your Guide to Adobe PDF Tools

[*] These electronic signatures should not be confused with Digital Signatures that can only be had from certification authorities such as Verisign. Electronic signatures on documents are also considered legally binding in most countries.

Source:http://www.labnol.org/software/sign-pdf-documents/9333/

I am familiar with iText , but not familiar with Ruby, I know Dreamhost supports Ruby on Rails(ROR), but never have a chance to run a real application, though I have a Dreamhost space.

Getting rjb, also known as “Ruby Java Bindings’ to work in a Dreamhost account can be somewhat problematic. Fortunately, it is also fairly straightforward. You just have to install all the dependencies in the user directory.

In my case, I was setting up a Rails Application that used the iText Java library to fill in PDF documents for user download. Of course, the server environment was not using Sun Java and the Java headers were not present, so gem install rjb failed. Joy.

The first course of action was to do a local install of Java.

Download jdk-6u7-linux-x64.bin and jre-6u7-linux-x64.bin from the Sun Java site. Then create an ~/opt directory and extract the JRE and JDK (you will need to chmod u+x both files then call them from the command line). Move the resulting folders to ~/opt . I renamed the folders to jdk and jre for simplicity.

Now you ensure that user gems are enabled in cPanel. Then add the following 3 lines to ~/.bash_profile

export JAVA_HOME=/home/username/opt/jdk
export GEM_PATH=/home/username/ruby/gems
export GEM_HOME=/home/username/ruby/gems

Run source ~/.bash_profile to load the paths.

Now you can run gem install rjb without any problems. You will likely have to re-install Rails and other gems because we will be telling our Rails app to load gems from the user directory. Just use the regular gem install syntax.

Add the following 2 lines to your config/environment.rb at the top

ENV['GEM_PATH']=’/home/username/ruby/gems’
ENV['JAVA_HOME']=’/home/username/opt/jdk’

That’s pretty much it.

I will concede that these probably aren’t the best instructions, but this is the real meat of the solution. If you keep getting “no such file to load” errors, you will need to extract the gems to the vendor/plugins directory. cd RAILS_ROOT/vendor/plugins and gem unpack gem_name for each problematic gem. I believe this is an issue with Passenger.

Please correct me if I am wrong about any of this, it was a very long day!

source: http://blog.patrick-morgan.net/2008/10/using-ruby-java-bindings-on-dreamhost.html

When you try to find a solution to Convert your PDF to PPT, you will find there are most share software, you have to pay for the conversion, but if you search it carefully, you will find two free software that you want.

If you have Adobe Acrobat(not Adobe Reader), I recommend you this one, it need Adobe Acrobat and Ms Powerpoint.

and If you do not have Adobe Acrobat, and you still want to do the conversion, I recommend you Acrobat Free Edtion PDF2PPT, it bases on PDF2PPM(part of xpdf).

30 minutes every week on data security, privacy, and the law….(plus or minus five)

On this week’s program:

* Like stealing candy from a baby….is Adobe making it that easy for attackers to get into computers?

* The Clampi Trojan is cleaning out bank accounts, and AV usually doesn’t see it.

* Researcher says that Palm is acting like Big Brother, tracking its users.

* Our take on this week’s news.

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Show Notes for Episode 66 of the Data Security Podcast

* Conversation: Ira talks with Joe Stewart. Technical Director of Malware Research at SecureWorks about the Clampi/Ligats/Ilomo Trojan.  AV usually won’t see it, and targets bank account log-ins, insurance log-ins, and other log-ins that allow attackers to steal.

* Tales From The Dark Web: Security researchers at Trustee are claiming that attacks in the wild targeting unpatched Adobe Flash and Adobe PDF Reader are appearing. And Adobe is making the problem worse. Read the report, and then see what happens when you check the patch level of a system using Adobe’s own Flash version checker. This attack impacts Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris usres.

*From the News:  Sheriff’s Office explains why it took over county computers

*From the News: Fake Search Engines for Twitter, from Karthik at BlogrPro.

* From the News:  Joey Hess wrote a blog posting where he reveals that Palm is acting like Big Brother to PalmPre users.  Deter Bahn wrote a related posting with more information.

*From the News: Mac OS Trojan.  Read the posting,  and blacklist the .com domain names that are listed here.

Mac Trojan called "Mac Cinema" - Looks Legit, Doesn't It? Well, it's not.

At last, Microsoft has released the much-anticipated SP2 update for Office 2007, and it’s currently available from the Microsoft Download Center.

The 290Mb download includes more than 600 fixes and improvements. Two key additions include support for the Open Document formats in Word (.odt), Excel (.ods), and Powerpoint (.odp) and the option to save as PDF in all applications. In my limited testing, PDF output was very true to the Word and Excel originals.

Excel’s charting mechanism has been been retooled, as has chart integration with other Office applications. Digital Inspiration notes several improvements to Outlook, including better IMAP and RSS support and faster startup, searching, and synchronization. Microsoft also touts general performance gains and better quality print output across the entire suite.

For a detailed look at what Office 2007 SP2 is all about, check the Office Sustained Engineering blog post. There’s also a good roundup on Microsoft Support.

source, http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/04/28/office-2007-sp2-ships-adds-open-document-and-pdf-support/

btw, maybe you are also interested in Two 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in related to PDF.

2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS,

PDFTools is a PDF management application. It can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp, create, and rearrange PDF files. It also includes a easy to use XML to PDF converter.  The feature, I most use, is the “Join Multiple PDF’s”.  I find myself using PDF Creator to print my online sales receipts and then using PDF Tools to combine all the receipts into one file.

Features:

• Encrypt PDF : This option allows you to password protect any PDF file. Also, you can specify additional features for protected PDF.
  Note: Some of the features are only available if you select 128 bit encryption.
• Decrypt PDF : This option allows you to create a protection-free version of a encrypted PDF file.
• Join PDFs : This option allows you to create a PDF file by joining multiple PDF files.
• Split PDF : This option allows you to split a PDF file in multiple ways. You can split each page to new PDF, split even pages to new PDF, split odd pages to new PDF, split after given page number, split at every given page count or split a range of pages to new PDF file.
• Stamp PDF : This option allows you to overlay (or stamp) a Text or Image over a PDF file. You can overlay Text/Image at pre-defined location in pages or at any custom location by giving its X and Y position. For text, in custom position you can define angle (in Degrees) for text. For Image, you can define the scaling for image. Scale option is available for both pre-defined location and custom location.
• Rearrange PDF : This option allows you arrange pages in a PDF file. You can reverse all pages, copy multiple pages on single page or create handout style pages.
• Create PDF : This option allows you create a PDF file from xml file.

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About iText in Action

In addition to the many small code samples, iText in Action includes lots of XML-based, ready-made solutions that can easily be adapted and integrated into your projects.

If you’re a .NET developer using the C# or J# port of iText, iTextSharp or iText.NET, you can also benefit from this book, but you’ll have to adapt the examples.

How to use iText in Action

You can read this book chronologically, starting with the introductory part 1. Part 2 describes useful basic building blocks, and part 3 gets into iText’s core PDF functionality. You’ll finish with part 4, which discusses the interactive features of PDF.

If you haven’t convinced your project manager yet that PDF is the way to go, you’ll certainly benefit from reading chapters 1 and 3. It sums up some reasonable arguments that will help you help your manager make policy decisions regarding e-documents. Section 1.3 contains a roadmap to the ready-made solutions that are demonstrated throughout the book. The main function of this section is to offer you a menu composed of a series of screenshots, showing all kinds of documents: documents with flowing text, graphics, bookmarks, and so on. If you see something you like, you can use this book as a kind of ‘cookbook’ and jump to the ‘recipe’ that was used to create a similar document.

Readers who are new to iText will need to take the “Hello World” crash course in chapter 2. This chapter shows that iText can be used in many different ways. The first three chapters often refer to sections in parts 2, 3, and 4, where you’ll find an in-depth explanation of the specific functionality that is being introduced in one of the many “Hello World” examples.

You can also read iText in Action in random order or thematically, starting from the table of contents or the roadmap in chapter 1. Once you’re well acquainted with iText, you’ll probably use iText in Action as a reference manual, browsing for the many small standalone code samples that can be applied directly to your own code.

for details, please visit here.

P.S.

if you want to buy it online, please visit iText in Action on Amazon.

PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux (other POSIX-compatible systems should work too) tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files. It is small, command line driven without external dependencies. The application is Open Source (GPL).

Features

• Supports the standard security handler (revision 2, 3 and 4) on all known PDF-versions
• Supports cracking both owner and userpasswords
• Both wordlists and bruteforcing the password is supported
• Simple permutations (currently only trying first character as Upper Case)
• Save/Load a running job
• Simple benchmarking
• Optimised search for owner-password when user-password is known

Here are some person talk about pdfcrack,

1. PDFCrack | RubyPdf Technologies

2. PDFCrack 0.11 for Window Releases | RubyPDF Blog

3. Free PDF Password Recovery for Windows

Dalam rangka rekruitmen CPNS dan Cakim di Lingkungan Mahkamah Agung RI tahun anggaran 2009, Sekretaris Mahkamah Agung RI dengan suratnya nomor : 309/Bua.2/Peng.01.2/V/2009 yang di tujukan kepada beberapa Universitas di seluruh Indonesia.

Mahkamah Agung RI membuka seleksi penerimaan CPNS dan Cakim bagi alumnus/lulusan untuk Beberapa Universitas di Indonesia.

Untuk data para alumnus/lulusan yang berminat dan telah diterima paling lambat akhir Juli 2009 di Biro Kepegawaian Mahkamah Agung RI melalui :

1.Email : biro_kepegawaian_mari@yahoo.co.id

2.Website Mahkamah Agung : www.mahkamahagung.go.id

3.Website Biro Kepegawaian : sikep.mahkamahagung.go.id

Untuk Surat rekruitmen CPNS dan Cakim di Lingkungan Mahkamah Agung RI tahun anggaran 2009 dan Lampirannya dapat di download disini:

A. Download Langsung (file Winzip) klik ini  DOWNLOAD

B.  Server Ziddu

1. File Winzip:

http://www.ziddu.com/download/5203123/CPNSHAKIMMAHKAMAHAGUNG2009-2010.zip.html

2. File Adobe .Pdf

http://www.ziddu.com/download/5203101/engumumanSeleksiCPNSdanCAKIMMahkamahAgung2009-2010.pdf.html

Sumber:

http://www.pengumuman-cpns.com/

Dalam rangka rekruitmen CPNS dan Cakim di Lingkungan Mahkamah Agung RI tahun anggaran 2009, Sekretaris Mahkamah Agung RI dengan suratnya nomor : 309/Bua.2/Peng.01.2/V/2009 yang di tujukan kepada beberapa Universitas di seluruh Indonesia.

Mahkamah Agung RI membuka seleksi penerimaan CPNS dan Cakim bagi alumnus/lulusan untuk Beberapa Universitas di Indonesia.

Untuk data para alumnus/lulusan yang berminat dan telah diterima paling lambat akhir Juli 2009 di Biro Kepegawaian Mahkamah Agung RI melalui :

1.Email : biro_kepegawaian_mari@yahoo.co.id

2.Website Mahkamah Agung : www.mahkamahagung.go.id

3.Website Biro Kepegawaian : sikep.mahkamahagung.go.id

Untuk Surat rekruitmen CPNS dan Cakim di Lingkungan Mahkamah Agung RI tahun anggaran 2009 dan Lampirannya dapat di download disini:

A. Download Langsung (file Winzip) klik ini  DOWNLOAD

B.  Server Ziddu

1. File Winzip:

http://www.ziddu.com/download/5203123/CPNSHAKIMMAHKAMAHAGUNG2009-2010.zip.html

2. File Adobe .Pdf

http://www.ziddu.com/download/5203101/engumumanSeleksiCPNSdanCAKIMMahkamahAgung2009-2010.pdf.html

Sumber:

http://www.pengumuman-cpns.com/