Alfresco PDF Toolkit 1.0 Release Screencast

Alfresco PDF Toolkit adds additional functionality to Alfresco that allows you to work with PDF files. With the project's 1.0 release a number of new features have been added for Alfresco 4.x and Share.

Current Functionality: Merge -- Append PDF to another PDF, generating a new PDF Split -- Splits a PDF at a specified interval, generating new PDFs for each section. Split At -- Split PDF into two PDFs at a specific page, generating two new PDFs. Insert PDF -- Insert PDF at a specific Page PDF Watermarking PDF Encryption Digital Signatures TIFF to PDF transformation (currently rather rudimentary, but functional) Search for encrypted or signed documents by encryption or signature date

The Alfresco PDF Toolkit is hosted on Google Code:

http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-pdf...

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min technical consultant with alfresco
and one of the authors
the Alfresco PDF toolkit this screencast
will show you some of the new features
in the latest release
version 1.0 along with some information
about the future direction the project
your first book pdf toolkit is the
senate extensions from Frisco the
provide additional functionality for
working with PDF documents
these features include pDF Merge with
Japan's 1.pdf to another
split either is just fine general or a
specific page
in search which can search the content
of one PDF into another at a specific
location
PDF watermarking encryption in digital
signatures
in prior releases these actions were
only available to offer us to explore or
to the actions API
with the 1.2 release all the additional
actions are available through Office to
share as both actions that can be used
in a continent wall
in this document library actions in
addition the latest release includes
content
indicators that show when a document has
been signed during Krypton additional
advanced search options for finding
encryptor sign documents
in a new content transform the talk is
delivered as to am packages
one for the repository cheer and one for
infrastructure
so now that you know what's available to
talk it let's get on with the demo
alfresco content rules
provide a powerful mechanism for acting
on content minutes added to a folder
the offer still PDF talk it extends this
capability with all the actions
previously described
as an example let's take a look at the
content will automatically split the
document pages
when it's added 24 I've already set up a
time to do on this folder
as shown by the indicator here click on
Manage rules
to see the defines there's one will
define to this folder
cold split PDF click and it to see the
details at this rule
in the perform action section
the details for this war visible the
actions list
contains all of the available for a
score PDF toolkit actions
the split PDF action selected in the
appropriate settings have been
configured
this rule will take an incoming PDF
document in Split each page
policing the resulting PDF's and
selected destination for
so let's see it in action
first
I'm going to drag a PDF document to the
folder with the wall clock
once the files will uploaded the split
folder will contain several new PDF
documents
one for each page the source doc and
here in the sport folder
we can now see 1.pdf for each page a
horse or stop
while content walls are powerful tool
they're not always the right solution
for performing action against the
document alfresco document library
actions gives users a more interactive
way to act on a specific P supplanted
as an example let's take one at the
sample documenting the test assets
folder
and apply document friction in the test
assets folder
I have several pieces of content
including PDF document images
the document library actions evaluate
the MIME type of the content
in only available for PDF documents so
let's take the sample contract document
encrypt it so the passive is password
protected
in for the content modification is not
possible start by selecting
encrypt PDF document action next
select a destination folder with this
document will be placed one citizen
cryptic I'm just going to use the
document my
next
set the user info your passwords as well
as any permissions that you want to
grant to readers at the stock
once the forms is filled out click OK to
execute the action if we go back to our
destination folder
we now see a new PDF document note that
this document
as an indicator clearly showing that it
was in cryptid using PDF ticket in
addition to signing the document al
fresco is also reported some additional
meta-data
about the encryption that in this case
the encryption date
in who perform you purchase this meta
data is also searchable
by a new search type available in the
advanced search options
these advanced searches are available
for signs and encrypted PDF documents
the final new feature the office to PDF
talk it
is the chief to PDF Transformer this
transformer will take a tip
image and convert it to a PDF document
to demonstrate this feature I've set up
a former
with a continent rule that applies the
transformation
so copying the simple tips image into
the folder triggers the transformation
which in turn creates a PDF the tip
something to vintage
this transformation is very basic at the
moment but will improve in future
versions to support multi page 2 files
in transformation options for scaling
rotation that about wraps up what's new
in the office to PDF to chit version 1.0
the 1.1 release is already under
development include some new actions for
deleting or extracting pages from PBS
as well as in place actions that do not
require the creation of a new
destination file
the office to PDF talking is hosted on
Google Code
were you can find our issue tracker
package downloads
a VM files and of course full source
code
go to contributions from new features
and bug fixes
are always welcome and enjoy