Can I password protect a pdf generated using react-pdf?

[lutherdexter]

I have a requirement to allow users to scrape contents of a page by exporting to pdf. A must have feature is to give users the ability to password-protect the pdf at run-time.

Is this feature available in react-pdf or do you know of third-party tools that I can use alongside your component?

[diegomura]

It's not, and not sure if pdfkit supports it

[mpopv]

It does support it. https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#encryption-and-access-privileges

However I'm not sure if react-pdf is the right place to implement it, as the browser would prompt the user for a password on every rerender.

[chetanbura]

+1 for the password-protected PDF feature.
This is a very useful feature.

Any plans to consider this feature?

[bernardobgam]

@diegomura
pdfkit supports it, you just need to expose an options object to the construction of the PDFDocument. https://pdfkit.org/docs/guide.pdf (page 8)

You have the option to add a userPassword and an ownerPassword.

While are here you can also expose the permission option object.

const new PDFDocument({ 
    ...,
    userPassword: 'password1',
    ownerPassword: 'password1',
    permission: {
        printing: false,
        modifying: false,
        copying: false,
        annotating: false,
        fillingForms: false,
        contentAccessibility: false,
       documentAssembly: false,
} })

[max-degterev]

Did you guys figure out a way to pass those options down to the pdfkit? The way I see it there is no way at the moment right?

Would be nice to allow for extra options/props to be just passed through to the pdfkit.