Password for Open/Modify

[Stark78]

Hi,

We have a java application in which a word document needs to be created and downloaded. When the user opens the word document, he/she needs to challenged with a password(the one that we set in the Open/Modify).

I had used the Document.protect() method to protect the document but when I try to open the document, I am not challenged for the password. I was challenged only when I was trying to edit the document.

Please let me know whether I should be using some other method for password protection/encryption or is this a new feature that needs to be added.

[alexey.noskov]

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Thanks for your request. Aspose.Words at the moment cannot encrypt documents; it can only apply document protection. This is known issue #5407 in our defect database. Hopefully this feature will be supported somewhere in 2009.

However Aspose.Words supports loading encrypted documents.

Best regards.

[alexey.noskov]

The issues you have found earlier (filed as WORDSNET-1724) have been fixed in this .NET update and this Java update.