PODOFOENCRYPT(1)

🌸 PODOFOENCRYPT — the podofoencrypt manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so real quick, this is the man page for podofoencrypt, a lil command-line cutie from the PoDoFo library. pull up a chair 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

podofoencrypt — encrypt PDF files and set PDF security settings 🔒💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

podofoencrypt [--rc4v1] [--rc4v2] [--aes] [-u <userpassword>] -o
<ownerpassword> <inputfile> <outputfile>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So podofoencrypt is one of the command line tools from the PoDoFo library, and that little family of tools gives you a bunch of genuinely useful operations to work with PDF files. this one specifically? it encrypts PDF files using RC4 or AES encoding, and it can set your PDF security settings too. locked down, but make it cute 🔐✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --help — shows you the help text. classic. we love a self-aware flag 🎀

🔥 Algorithm 🔥

• --rc4v1 — use rc4v1 encryption
• --rc4v2 — use rc4v2 encryption (this is the Default value, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get)
• --aes — use aes encryption (currently not supported, so like… it's giving aspiration 💀)

🎀 Passwords 🎀

• -u <password> — an optional user password
• -o <password> — the required owner password (yes bestie, this one is not optional, don't skip it)

🌈 Permissions 🌈

• --print — allow printing the document 🖨️
• --edit — allow modification of the document besides annotations, form fields or changing pages
• --copy — allow extraction of text and graphics ✂️
• --editnotes — add or modify text annotations or form fields (if ePdfPermissions_Edit is set also allow the creation of interactive form fields including signature)
• --fillandsign — fill in existing form or signature fields ✍️
• --accessible — extract text and graphics to support user with disabilities ♿💜
• --assemble — assemble the document: insert, create, rotate delete pages or add bookmarks 🧩
• --highprint — print a high resolution version of the document ✨

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

podofobox(1), podofocolor(1), podofocountpages(1), podofocrop(1), podofogc(1), podofoimg2pdf(1), podofoimgextract(1), podofoincrementalupdates(1), podofoimpose(1), podofomerge(1), podofopages(1), podofopdfinfo(1), podofotxt2pdf(1), podofotxtextract(1), podofouncompress(1), podofoxmp(1)

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🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

PoDoFo is written by Dominik Seichter <domseichter@web.de> and others.

This manual page was written by Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@debian.org> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).

PoDoFo · 2010-12-09 · that's the version and date of this page bestie, and that's the whole thing. no cap, you're now officially educated on podofoencrypt 📚✨ mwah 💋