digidigital/aesify

Encrypt and protect PDF files - GUI for pikepdf -> qpdf

AESify

Encrypt and protect PDF files - A GUI for pikepdf -> qpdf

Features

• Encrypt PDF files with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encyption
  • AES-128 bits
  • AES-256 bits
• Support to set "Document open" and "Permissions" (Owner) passwords
• Set document restrictions
  • Print resolution
  • Document assembly
  • Content copying
  • Commenting
  • Filling in form fields
• Define a page range if you just want to export a part of your PDF
• Create strong passwords
• Ready for localization (EN, DE and RU already included)
• Supported OS: Windows 10 and Linux (e.g. Ubuntu 20.04)

Installation

In order to use the copy/paste features on linux computers you need to install 'xclip', 'xsel' or 'wl-clipboard' with apt.

If your Linux Distro comes with snap (e. g. Ubuntu) you can:

or you can type

sudo snap install aesify

in your terminal.

If your Linux Distro does not have snap pre-installed you can find instructions for installing snap here.

The easiest way to "install" AESify on Windows is to download the release package, unzip and simply run the binary.

Alternatively you can download the code folder and run the AESify.py script. In this case you have to install the packages PySimpleGUI, pyperclip and pikepdf using pip3.

aesify's Issues

Support dark mode

Add support for dark mode detection and a dark theme

Invisible folders, files and options running on Debian 11 with Mate Desktop

I think AESify could be very useful to my professional activities but, when I run it on a Debian 11 notebook with MATE Desktop 1.24.1, I can't read the text boxes unless I select the text inside them; I can't read folder and file names unless I select them. Even worse, the radio buttons and checkboxes don't change their appearance when I click on them, so I never know if they are selected or not. Please, check the screen captures at the following links:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eooWhLKRkzAgbs1xfwIIvbwbVOTVfLoS/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ikIzLQYaxSKJ-s43IWIcQn2r4PAFgKcc/view?usp=sharing

Changing the desktop theme doesn't alter the issue, so this software becomes unusable for my professional purposes.