[poppler] [RFC] Add option to strip encryption

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sat Jul 25 05:46:02 PDT 2015


El Dissabte, 25 de juliol de 2015, a les 14:26:48, Adam Reichold va escriure:
> Hello,
> 
> the attached patch adds an option to strip the encryption from a
> document by doing a complete rewrite but ignoring the original
> encryption parameters and removing the encryption entry form the trailer
> dictionary. It also exposes this via the two Qt frontends.
> 
> This might be useful for a separate command-line utility but for now my
> primary use case is submitting a rewritten but unencrypted document to
> CUPS for printing instead of converting to PostScript.

Not had a look at the patch yet, quick question.

Does this allow for:

a) Removing password for a document that is really encrypted
b) Removing password for a document that asks for password but is not really 
encrypted
c) None of the above

Cheers,
  Albert

> Best regards, Adam.



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