SetAdvancePassword

Security and Signatures

Version history

This function was introduced in Quick PDF Library version 7.14.

Description

The objects of certain PDFs are stored in object streams. If such a PDF is also encrypted, the password is needed to access the structure of the PDF.

This function allows you to set the password to use when opening a file using LoadFromFile, LoadFromString, LoadFromStream or LoadFromVariant functions.

If the password is correct, the file will be automatically decrypted.

Syntax

Delphi

function TQuickPDF0726.SetAdvancePassword(const Password: string): Integer;

ActiveX

Function QuickPDF0726.PDFLibrary::SetAdvancePassword(Password As String) As Long

DLL

int QuickPDFSetAdvancePassword(int InstanceID, char * Password)

Parameters

Password

The password to automatically use when opening a PDF