[poppler] [RFC] Add option to strip encryption

[Leonard Rosenthol]

I assume that you only do this when the PDF allows printing - but if printing is not permitted, you don’t violate the original author’s rights.   True?

Also, in light of what Albert wrote - I have to assume that this only works for documents without an open/user password.  Either that or only when the user knows the password.   Correct?

Leonard



On 7/25/15, 8:26 AM, "poppler on behalf of Adam Reichold" <poppler-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org on behalf of adam.reichold at t-online.de> wrote:

>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.
>
>Best regards, Adam.
>