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Generate pages removes Stamps by regenerating pages.....but what if they are protected stamps?

Version 9 Laserfiche Administration
Updated February 7, 2014
asked on February 5, 2014 • Show version history

I was wondering what happens if a user tries to generate pages on a PDF that has annotations that are "Protected" applied to it's pages that were already associated with the document in Laserfiche.

 

We have a client that has PDFs that need to have pages generated on them so they can apply stamps as part of the process. I was wondering about the situation that can happen if someone were to try and regenerate pages for these documents. What would happen to these protected stamps?

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replied on February 6, 2014

Marking an annotation as "protected" only prevents changes to the annotation itself.  It does not prevent a user with the "delete document pages" right on the document from deleting the page with the annotation on it.

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replied on February 6, 2014

That's an interesting scenario. I've never tried generating pages with protected stamps. The easiest solution here would be to test it! Get a hold of some PDFs and apply a protected stamp on it. Then you can generate pages on it and see what happens. 

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replied on February 6, 2014

I tried it with one document. It did not error or say it finished generating pages, but it did make no pages associated to the document. I consider this inconclusive but my coworkers are rather uneasy to help me out testing this.

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replied on February 7, 2014 • Show version history

Alan - It doesn't sound like the situation is a PDF with protected stamps on it, but rather a LF electronic file PDF with a protected stamp on the affiliated image pages within Laserfiche itself. That's definitely a different situation.

 

Kenneth - make sure you were generating pages through native PDF page generation, and not Snapshot. Snapshot can be iffy about generating pages on PDFs (one of the reasons we have native PDF page generation in the first place). If that's not actually making new pages that's something you'll want to look into since there generally are not cases where that would just not make pages, at least not without an error message. Snapshot could though.

 

Anyway, I'm pretty sure Andrew has the actual answer below (it certainly matches what my expectations would be), just wanted to touch on the comments here.

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replied on February 7, 2014

Justin,

 

Thanks for the information. The client and our company had actually discussed starting this process with a snapshot instead of saving the PDF so we are going to do that. This solves the problem as we would not have an electronic file to generate pages from at a later point

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replied on February 7, 2014

Sure, although be aware that native PDF page generation can also be configured to not retain the source PDF. Native PDF generation is also quicker and gives a direct image/text stream from the PDF instead of a print stream followed by an OCR operation, so it's generally going to be more accurate. If Snapshot works for you though, that certainly works. I just have encountered some inconsistencies with it specifically with PDFs, so just something to watch for if you are using it with PDFs.

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