Edit PDF

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How do you edit a PDF file in CQ5 DAM where it can then be saved directly back into DAM?

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

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]

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