On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net> wrote:
Setting author, title, keywords metadata is rather simple.

Is there a corresponding way to set PDF security properties, e.g. allow/disallow comments, allow/disallow printing &c.

Have you seen qpdf ?
http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html

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luigi