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java program to password protect a signed pdf file using itext pdfstamper

 
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please could anyone help me out ...i have written this code for digitally signing pdf. here
when i compile the code works fine but after running and entering a user id i get an exception

D:\password>java EncryptPDF
USERNAME:PASSWORD
Please enter your username
shiva
pavithra: pvm4kor
shompa: sos5kor
shiva: snk3kor
passwordsnk3kor
hello
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Bad user password
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.readDecryptedDocObj(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.readDocObj(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.readPdf(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at EncryptPDF.main(EncryptPDF.java:85)




thanks in advance ...
 
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on line 85, I think you need to supply your user password:



according to the API, (http://1t3xt.info/api/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfReader.html) this should work:

 
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Moving to Other Open Source Projects.
 
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hello friend ,

i modified the program and put the password in PDFReader . but that exception is not going ..bad user password...but however i am getting the protected signed pdf ....but am getting signature in only one pdf..
please could you help me out ..

 
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pavithra murthy wrote:i modified the program and put the password in PDFReader . but that exception is not going ..bad user password...but however i am getting the protected signed pdf ....but am getting signature in only one pdf..
please could you help me out ..



Hi I'm not clear on which error you are seeing now. Could you post the error output?
 
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