[cairo] pdf encryption, read-write permissions

[chris nuernberger]

OK, what about the host of other PDF things you can do, like chapters
and pages (navigation on the left)?  All of that stuff is useful,
especially for large documents.

On 8/23/05, Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> wrote:
> chris nuernberger wrote:
> > I would love to use cairo as a rendering backend for a tool that I am
> > writing, but we need a few PDF options and I don't know if they are in
> > cairo already or what.  I searched the archives a bit but must have
> > missed the response I am looking for.
> 
> We haven't discussed this much on the list, but my thinking is that the
> pdf backend should support much more meta data than it currently does.
> Encryption is one thing that would make sense to support, but also
> features such as page labels, table of contents, author, title, creator
> (the application using cairo) and numerous others.  It's not going to be
> in 1.0, but the API for this would probably be setters on the PDF
> surface, e.g. something like
> 
>         cairo_pdf_surface_set_author (surface, "Jane Austen");
> 
> and
> 
>         cairo_pdf_surface_set_section (surface, parent_section, "Font Level
> Hints");
> 
> and similiar.
> 
> cheers,
> Kristian
>