Re: PDF Driver - How to Enable PDF Commenting Rights?

Rob Cross — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:55:04 GMT

Thanks for the responses...

But I may have to wait until our office gets upgraded to V8i.

Rob

Re: PDF Driver - How to Enable PDF Commenting Rights?

Gunnar Gantzhorn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:38:26 GMT

Rob,

I am not sure wether this feature is supported in MicroStation V8 2004 Edition.

I just had a look at the V8 2004 driver and the required lines for configuration are missing in the pdf.plt delivered with V8 2004 Ed.

In MicroStation XM the driver includes the following lines:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Uncomment the CmdName line below and change the qualifier to your owner
; password if you wish to protect the output PDF file. Note that if this
; password is set, you not be able to change the PDF file permissions without
; specifying it. If the user password is defined, but not the owner password,
; the user password will be used for the owner password also.
;CmdName /appname="pdf" /command="OwnerPassword" /qualifier="my_owner_password"
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Uncomment the CmdName line below and change the qualifier to your user
; password if you wish to protect the output PDF file. Note that if this
; password is set, you will not be able to open or view the PDF file without
; specifying it.
;CmdName /appname="pdf" /command="UserPassword" /qualifier="my_user_password"
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Control printing permissions. Default qualifier is "1". Legal values are:
; 0 = Do not allow printing
; 1 = Allow high resolution printing
; 2 = Allow only low resolution printing
; Either the owner or user password must be set for this setting to be honored.
CmdName /appname="pdf" /command="AllowPrinting" /qualifier="1"
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Control change permissions. Default qualifier is "1". Legal values are:
; 0 = Do not allow any changes
; 1 = Allow unrestricted changes
; 2 = Allow inserting, deleting, rotating pages
; 3 = Allow filling in form fields and signing
; 4 = Allow commenting, filling in form fields, and signing
; 5 = Allow any changes except for extracting content or printing
; Either the owner or user password must be set for this setting to be honored.
CmdName /appname="pdf" /command="AllowChanges" /qualifier="1"

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

; Enable/disable searchable text. On by default.
CmdName /appname="pdf" /command="SearchableText" /qualifier="on"
;CmdName /appname="pdf" /command="SearchableText" /qualifier="off"
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thus in XM it is easy to achieve the results you want.

HTH

Gunnar

Re: PDF Driver - How to Enable PDF Commenting Rights?

Roy Gallier — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:59:45 GMT

This Google Search may help, I am not sure but I believe commenting rights would fall under the editable attribute.

HTH - Roy