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Best answer by smacdonald2008

If you want to programmatically edit the PDF via an AEM custom service -- you can wrap the Apache PDF Box API in an OSGi bundle as well. That would give you the ability to customize AEM to expose a custom PDF service. See http://pdfbox.apache.org/. We have an example of wrapping an Excel Java lib in an OSGi:
http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2013/08/creating-custom-excel-service-for-adobe.html.
 

If course -- if you have LiveCycle ES -- you can combine CQ and AEM and programmatically modify the PDF to meet virtually any business needs. For example - you can policy protect the PDF. We have a community article that talks about using Adobe LiveCyle and Adobe CQ:

http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2012/07/integrating-livecycle-into-adobe-cq.html

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smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008Accepted solution
Level 10
October 16, 2015

If you want to programmatically edit the PDF via an AEM custom service -- you can wrap the Apache PDF Box API in an OSGi bundle as well. That would give you the ability to customize AEM to expose a custom PDF service. See http://pdfbox.apache.org/. We have an example of wrapping an Excel Java lib in an OSGi:
http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2013/08/creating-custom-excel-service-for-adobe.html.
 

If course -- if you have LiveCycle ES -- you can combine CQ and AEM and programmatically modify the PDF to meet virtually any business needs. For example - you can policy protect the PDF. We have a community article that talks about using Adobe LiveCyle and Adobe CQ:

http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2012/07/integrating-livecycle-into-adobe-cq.html

Yogesh_Upadhyay
Yogesh_Upadhyay
Level 6
October 16, 2015

You can use webDav to do that (Any change doen on file through webdav is reflected in DAM). As far as property is concern you can edit property within dam admin. If your metadata writeback workflow (Through workflow console) is enabled then changes are reflected in actual file.

[1] http://dev.day.com/docs/en/crx/current/how_to/webdav_access.html

[2] http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/dam/how_to_edit_metadata.html

Yogesh

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