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Using PDF in Oracle Reports 11-13 For information about suppressing specific permissions for encrypted PDF report using the PDFSECURITY command line keyword, see Section A.7.27, PDFSECURITY . The encrypted PDF document’s passwords and permissions, as specified by PDFUSER, PDFOWNER, and PDFSECURITY, are stored with the PDF document. An end user with authorization to change these values can do so as follows:

1. In Acrobat Writer 6.0 or later, open the PDF document.

2. Select Document Security Restrict Opening and Editing.

3. In the password prompt, enter the appropriate password as specified in

Table 11–5 .dialog box that displays, make desired changes to passwords and permissions.

4. In the dialog box that displays, make desired changes to passwords and

permissions. Support for PDF Security in Distribution Oracle Reports 11g Release 1 11.1.1 supports PDF encryption in distribution and bursting of reports. With this feature, you can set individual passwords and security permissions for each PDF that you generate. To use this feature, you must add atleast one property pdfuser, pdfowner, and pdfsecurity in the distribution xml file. destinations file id=F1 name=personal_report format=pdf Table 11–5 Effect of PDFUSER and PDFOWNER Keyword Combinations PDFUSER specified? PDFOWNER specified? Effect Yes Yes When an end user attempts to open PDF report output in Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later, a password prompt displays to request the password specified by PDFUSER or PDFOWNER to open the document, decrypt it, and display it on the screen. If the end user attempts to change permissions on the PDF report output in Acrobat Writer 6.0 or later, a password prompt displays to request the password specified by PDFOWNER to change the document’s passwords and permissions. Yes No When an end user attempts to open PDF report output in Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later, a password prompt displays to request the password specified by PDFUSER to open the document, decrypt it, and display it on the screen. If the end user attempts to change permissions on the PDF report output in Acrobat Writer 6.0 or later, a password prompt displays to request the same password specified by PDFUSER to change the document’s passwords and permissions. No Yes When an end user attempts to open PDF report output in Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later, Oracle Reports opens the document, decrypts it, and displays it on the screen. If the end user attempts to change permissions on the PDF report output in Acrobat Writer 6.0 or later, a password prompt displays to request the password specified by PDFOWNER to change the document’s passwords and permissions. No No Any end user can open PDF report output in Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later, and also change the document’s passwords and permissions in Acrobat Writer 6.0 or later. No password prompts display. 11-14 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services property name=pdfsecurity value=NOCOPY property name=pdfuser value=mypdf property name=pdfowner value=employee include src=mainSection file destinations For more information about the distribution xml file, see Section 20.3, Introduction to Distribution XML Files and Section 20.5, Distribution XML File Examples .

11.2.5 Accessibility

Oracle Reports provides several ways for you to include accessibility features in your PDF file. The PDF format file follows the tagged-PDF standard defined in PDF 1.4. This standard along with Acrobat Reader 5 or higher provides you with features for inclusion in the paper layout. For information on enabling accessibility-related features offered through Oracle Reports from the command line, see Section A.5.1, ACCESSIBLE . For information about using the Oracle Reports accessibility properties designed to make PDF report output accessible to the disabled community Alternative Text, Headers, ID, Report Language, and Table Caption properties, see the Oracle Reports online Help. Additionally, refer to Chapter 43, Building an Accessible JSP-based Web Report in the Oracle Reports Building Reports manual, and to the Oracle accessibility site on OTN http:www.oracle.comaccessibilityindex.html , where you can learn more about accessibility and find the Creating Accessible Enterprise Reports Using Oracle Reports white paper.

11.2.6 Taxonomy

A PDF document can include global information about itself such as the documents title, author, creation and modification dates. This global information proves useful at the time of cataloging or searching for documents in external databases. Oracle Reports provides report-level properties to enable such a classification, known as taxonomy. They are: ■ Title ■ Author ■ Subject ■ Keywords Refer to the Oracle Reports online Help for more information on the taxonomy properties. Table 11–6 Taxonomy Properties Property Name Type Description Default Value Title String Document title. PDF document name Author String Documents author. Oracle Reports Subject String Documents subject. None Keywords String Specifies keywords that can be used to categorize the document. None