Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / September 2007

Can't seem to find a straight forward answer for this. I'm using  iText to open
an existing form, that has a owner password and then populate it, and save out
the results. Everything works if I Don't have a owner password.

So the Question is how to I define the owerPassword when opening the pdf?

Attached is a bit of my code. The error happens on the "reader =
createObject...." line.

pdfFile=expandPath("#inputPDF#");    //define the name of my output file
newFile=expandPath("#DestFile#");    //create the output file
ownerPassword = "xxx888";
fileIO=createObject("java","java.io.FileOutputStream").init(newFile);         //load
the template PDF with the iText PDF reader
writeoutput("<BR>Processing fileIO");
reader =
createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader").init(pdfFile);    // <------
This is Where the code dies without a password, as the pdfFile has one defined
writeoutput("<BR>Processing reader");
pdfStamper =
createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper").init(reader,
fileIO);    //create a form object to reference
writeoutput("<BR>Processing pdfStamper");
pdfForm = pdfStamper.getAcroFields();   
.....etc etc...