PdfLicenseManager

2008-05-22T13:13:24Z

Enricomasala: /* Historical notes */

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Enrico Masala originally wrote an easy-to-use Java program to embed Creative Commons metadata into PDF files using [[XMP]]. This program is Free Software and does not require Adobe Acrobat Professional; furthermore, it can be modified fairly easily to run "headlessly" and insert the license XMP into PDF files automatically.

== Usage instructions ==

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When you run the application by launching its JAR, you are greeted with this window. Choosing "File->Open" will let you select a PDF, and the drop-down Clicking on "Advanced" will show you the XMP embedded in the PDF. Choosing a license from the "Update License" widgets will, obviously, let you choose a license.

The program also has a command line interface that can be accessed by running the JAR with command line arguments.

== Downloading a binary JAR ==

* You can download [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/software/pdflicensemanager/pdflicensemanager-2.3.jar the latest release, version 2.3], as JAR. On most systems (with Java properly set up), just double-click this to run!

== Getting and modifying the source code ==

You can check it out of our Subversion:

* svn checkout http://code.creativecommons.org/svnroot/xmp/pdf_license_manager/

The main development happens in the "trunk" directory. You can also [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/software/pdflicensemanager/pdflicensemanager-2.3.zip download the source and precompiled .class files in a ZIP file] (without a bundled copy of iText; see the README for information on that).

== Building a binary JAR ==

Just run "make pdflicensemanager.jar" in the trunk/ directory (or wherever else you have a copy of the source).

== Version history ==

* 2.3: April 8, 2008
** Updated by Asheesh Laroia to refer to new Creative Commons namespace
** Updated by Asheesh Laroia to rever to version 3.0 of the CC license suite
* 2.2: Feb 7, 2006
** Bug fix in updateLicense. It tried to append new nodes to the last “rdf:Description” instead of "rdf:RDF". Thanks to Mr. dOGMaTiC and Andres Gonzalez.
* 2.1 Dec 4, 2006
** Modified some info messages.
* 2.0 Jul 12, 2006
** Added a graphical user interface. Command line interface is still present.
* 1.0 Jul 5, 2006
** First release. Command line interface.

== Historical notes ==
* The program's original web page was at http://media.polito.it/masala/plm2_README.txt , but it seems to be down. Alternative page is at http://enrico.masala.googlepages.com/plm2_index.html

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