Alfresco PDF Toolkit v 1 0 Nathan Mc

Alfresco PDF Toolkit v 1. 0 Nathan Mc. Minn, Technical Consultant with Alfresco Twitter: @ntmcminn http: //nathanmcminn. com

Alfresco PDF Toolkit – What and Why? The Alfresco PDF Toolkit is a set of extensions for Alfresco that provides additional functionality around PDF documents

Alfresco PDF Toolkit – What and Why? The Alfresco PDF Toolkit is a set of extensions for Alfresco that provides additional functionality around PDF documents. The Alfresco PDF Toolkit project aims to create the most complete set of tools for PDF handling and manipulation available for Alfresco.

Alfresco PDF Toolkit – What and Why? The Alfresco PDF Toolkit is a set of extensions for Alfresco that provides additional functionality around PDF documents. The Alfresco PDF Toolkit project aims to create the most complete set of tools for PDF handling and manipulation available for Alfresco. Over 4000 downloads since launch

Alfresco PDF Toolkit – Project Team • Jared Ottley – Project founder and maintainer • Created initial project including split, merge and append actions • Nathan Mc. Minn – Committer • Contributed encryption, watermarking, digital signature and delete page actions, share extensions, Tiff -> PDF Transformer • Diego Liberalquino – Committer • Contributed fixes to digital signature action and UI • Nick Burch • Contributed i. Text plain text to PDF transformer

Alfresco PDF Toolkit – Project History Jan 2010: Initial release 0. 9 Sept-Nov 2010: watermarking, encryption and signature actions added Sept 2012: New Transformers, Share functionality

Extension Delivery • Alfresco Repository Extensions • Delivered as a standard repository AMP file • Alfresco Share Extensions • Currently delivered as an AMP, next release will likely be a JAR file instead Formal releases are available from the project’s download page, or build from head (using Maven) if you are feeling brave : -)

Extension Components • Actions • Aspects • Advanced Search • Transformers • Constraints • Share UI enhancements

Extension Components - Actions • PDF Actions • Split – splits a document every ‘n’ pages • Split at page – splits a document at a defined page • Insert – inserts the content of one PDF into another • Merge – Merges the contents of two PDF documents • Digital Signature – Apply a PDF digital signature • Encryption – Apply PDF encryption, set passwords and permissions • Watermarking – Apply a PDF Watermark in the form of an image or text with multiple formatting options

Extension Components - Aspects • pdft: signed • Applied when a document is signed using the toolkit • Records user, signature date, reason and location • Used in advanced search to find specific signed docs • pdft: encrypted • Applied when a document is encrypted using the toolkit • Records user and encryption date • Used in advanced search to find specific encrypted docs

Extension Components – Advanced Search • Signed PDFs • Search for signed documents by signer, date range, reason or location • All standard search options also remain available • Encrypted PDFs • Search for encrypted documents by person that encrypted the doc or encryption date range • All standard search options remain available

Extension Components - Transformers • Text to PDF • An i. Text based text to PDF transformer, supporting some basic text MIME types • Recognizes and transforms text/plain, text/csv and text/xml • TIFF to PDF • Transforms a TIFF image to a PDF document • Basic transformation only at this point, scaling options and multi -image TIFF support coming soon

Extension Components - Constraints • Map. Constraint • Used by the toolkit to configure action constraints using a Map defined in Spring configuration • Examples include constraints for watermark visibility, encryption levels, etc • See module-context. xml for complete list of configured constraints

Extension Components – Share Extensions • Rules configuration • Action configuration form in content rules requires client-side customizations (document / folder pickers) • Content indicators • Used to show at a glance when a PDF has been encrypted or signed • Document Library Actions • All PDF Toolkit actions are available in both content rules and the document library (form service rocks!)

Demo Time!

A Little About Share Doc. Lib Actions It is almost silly how easy it is to take a custom action and make it available as a Share Document Library Action

Share Doc. Lib Action Configuration <action id="pdf-encryption” type="javascript" label="actions. pdftoolkit. encrypt. PDF"> <param name="function">on. Action. Form. Dialog</param> <param name="item. Kind">action</param> <param name="item. Id">pdf-encryption</param> <param name="mode">create</param> <param name="destination">{node. Ref}</param> <param name="success. Message">message. pdf-encryption. success</param> <param name="failure. Message">message. pdf-encryption. failure</param> <evaluator>evaluator. pdftoolkit. doclib. action. pdf. Toolkit. Mimetype</evaluator> </action>

Share Doc. Lib Action Configuration <action id="pdf-encryption” type="javascript" label="actions. pdftoolkit. encrypt. PDF"> <param name="function">on. Action. Form. Dialog</param> <param name="item. Kind">action</param> <param name="item. Id">pdf-encryption</param> <param name="mode">create</param> <param name="destination">{node. Ref}</param> <param name="success. Message">message. pdf-encryption. success</param> <param name="failure. Message">message. pdf-encryption. failure</param> <evaluator>evaluator. pdftoolkit. doclib. action. pdf. Toolkit. Mimetype</evaluator> </action>

Demo Time!

Using the Actions from the Java. Script API • Use the existing “actions” Java. Script object • Example: //get the pdf to watermark and the destination folder var pdf_to_watermark = <a scriptnode> var dest_folder = <a scriptnode> //create an action instance var watermark_action = actions. create("pdf-watermark"); //set the required parameters watermark_action. parameters["destination-folder"] = dest_folder; watermark_action. parameters["watermark-text"] = "Test 111"; watermark_action. parameters["watermark-type"] = "text"; watermark_action. parameters["watermark-pages"] = "all"; watermark_action. parameters["watermark-depth"] = "under"; watermark_action. parameters["watermark-font"] = "Courier"; watermark_action. parameters["watermark-size"] = "34"; watermark_action. parameters[“position”] = “center” //execute the configured action watermark_action. execute(pdf_to_watermark);

Alfresco PDF Toolkit – Roadmap Dec 2012 Version 1. 1 Numerous bug fixes 4. 2. x compatibility “Delete page” action Copy Node Winter 2013 Version 1. 2 Improved TIFF to PDF transformer “Download as PDF” document action Summer 2013 Version 1. 3 PDF/A transformer Annotations? OCR? You tell us!!

Alfresco PDF Toolkit - Feature requests? What would

Alfresco PDF Toolkit: htthttp: //code. google. com/p/alfresco-pdf-toolkit/ Want to know when we release? Follow the project team on Twitter! @jottley @ntmcminn