1. Nathan McMinn, Technical Consultant with Alfresco
Alfresco PDF Toolkit v1.0
Nathan McMinn, Technical Consultant with Alfresco
Twitter: @ntmcminn

2. Alfresco PDF Toolkit – What and Why?
The Alfresco PDF Toolkit is a set of extensions for Alfresco that provides additional functionality around PDF documents

3. Alfresco PDF Toolkit – What and Why?
The Alfresco PDF Toolkit is a set of extensions for Alfresco that provides additional functionality around PDF documents. The Alfresco PDF Toolkit project aims to create the most complete set of tools for PDF handling and manipulation available for Alfresco.

4. Alfresco PDF Toolkit – What and Why?
The Alfresco PDF Toolkit is a set of extensions for Alfresco that provides additional functionality around PDF documents. The Alfresco PDF Toolkit project aims to create the most complete set of tools for PDF handling and manipulation available for Alfresco. Over 4000 downloads since launch

5. Alfresco PDF Toolkit – Project Team
Jared Ottley – Project founder and maintainer
Created initial project including split, merge and append actions
Nathan McMinn – Committer
Contributed encryption, watermarking, digital signature and delete page actions, share extensions, Tiff -> PDF Transformer
Diego Liberalquino – Committer
Contributed fixes to digital signature action and UI
Nick Burch
Contributed iText plain text to PDF transformer

6. Alfresco PDF Toolkit – Project History
Jan 2010: Initial release 0.9
Sept-Nov 2010: watermarking, encryption and signature actions added
Sept 2012: New Transformers, Share functionality

7. Extension Delivery Alfresco Repository Extensions
Delivered as a standard repository AMP file
Alfresco Share Extensions
Currently delivered as an AMP, next release will likely be a JAR file instead
Formal releases are available from the project’s download page, or build from head (using Maven) if you are feeling brave :-)

8. Extension Components Actions Aspects Advanced Search Transformers
Constraints
Share UI enhancements

9. Extension Components - Actions
PDF Actions
Split – splits a document every ‘n’ pages
Split at page – splits a document at a defined page
Insert – inserts the content of one PDF into another
Merge – Merges the contents of two PDF documents
Digital Signature – Apply a PDF digital signature
Encryption – Apply PDF encryption, set passwords and permissions
Watermarking – Apply a PDF Watermark in the form of an image or text with multiple formatting options

10. Extension Components - Aspects
pdft:signed
Applied when a document is signed using the toolkit
Records user, signature date, reason and location
Used in advanced search to find specific signed docs
pdft:encrypted
Applied when a document is encrypted using the toolkit
Records user and encryption date
Used in advanced search to find specific encrypted docs

11. Extension Components – Advanced Search
Signed PDFs
Search for signed documents by signer, date range, reason or location
All standard search options also remain available
Encrypted PDFs
Search for encrypted documents by person that encrypted the doc or encryption date range
All standard search options remain available

12. Extension Components - Transformers
Text to PDF
An iText based text to PDF transformer, supporting some basic text MIME types
Recognizes and transforms text/plain, text/csv and text/xml
TIFF to PDF
Transforms a TIFF image to a PDF document
Basic transformation only at this point, scaling options and multi-image TIFF support coming soon

13. Extension Components - Constraints
MapConstraint
Used by the toolkit to configure action constraints using a Map defined in Spring configuration
Examples include constraints for watermark visibility, encryption levels, etc
See module-context.xml for complete list of configured constraints

14. Extension Components – Share Extensions
Rules configuration
Action configuration form in content rules requires client-side customizations (document / folder pickers)
Content indicators
Used to show at a glance when a PDF has been encrypted or signed
Document Library Actions
All PDF Toolkit actions are available in both content rules and the document library (form service rocks!)

15. Demo Time!

16. A Little About Share DocLib Actions
It is almost silly how easy it is to take a custom action and make it available as a Share Document Library Action

17. Share DocLib Action Configuration
<action id="pdf-encryption” type="javascript"
label="actions.pdftoolkit.encryptPDF">
<param name="function">onActionFormDialog</param>
<param name="itemKind">action</param>
<param name="itemId">pdf-encryption</param>
<param name="mode">create</param>
<param name="destination">{node.nodeRef}</param>
<param name="successMessage">message.pdf-encryption.success</param>
<param name="failureMessage">message.pdf-encryption.failure</param>
<evaluator>evaluator.pdftoolkit.doclib.action.pdfToolkitMimetype</evaluator>
</action>
onActionFormDialog is a built-in client side Alfresco JavaScript function, makes it trivially easy to render a sane default form for a custom action.

18. Share DocLib Action Configuration
<action id="pdf-encryption” type="javascript"
label="actions.pdftoolkit.encryptPDF">
<param name="function">onActionFormDialog</param>
<param name="itemKind">action</param>
<param name="itemId">pdf-encryption</param>
<param name="mode">create</param>
<param name="destination">{node.nodeRef}</param>
<param name="successMessage">message.pdf-encryption.success</param>
<param name="failureMessage">message.pdf-encryption.failure</param>
<evaluator>evaluator.pdftoolkit.doclib.action.pdfToolkitMimetype</evaluator>
</action>

19. Demo Time!

20. Using the Actions from the JavaScript API
Use the existing “actions” JavaScript object
Example:
//get the pdf to watermark and the destination folder
var pdf_to_watermark = <a scriptnode>
var dest_folder = <a scriptnode>
//create an action instance
var watermark_action = actions.create("pdf-watermark");
//set the required parameters
watermark_action.parameters["destination-folder"] = dest_folder;
watermark_action.parameters["watermark-text"] = "Test111";
watermark_action.parameters["watermark-type"] = "text";
watermark_action.parameters["watermark-pages"] = "all";
watermark_action.parameters["watermark-depth"] = "under";
watermark_action.parameters["watermark-font"] = "Courier";
watermark_action.parameters["watermark-size"] = "34";
watermark_action.parameters[“position”] = “center”
//execute the configured action
watermark_action.execute(pdf_to_watermark);

21. Alfresco PDF Toolkit – Roadmap
“Delete page” action
4.2.x compatibility
Numerous bug fixes
Version 1.1
Dec 2012
Copy Node
“Download as PDF” document action
Improved TIFF to PDF transformer
Version 1.2
Winter 2013
PDF/A transformer
Version 1.3
You tell us!!
Annotations?
Summer 2013
OCR?

22. Alfresco PDF Toolkit - Feature requests?
What would

23. Alfresco PDF Toolkit: htthttp://code. google
Alfresco PDF Toolkit: htthttp://code.google.com/p/alfresco-pdf-toolkit/ Want to know when we release? Follow the project team on Twitter!