Bug#413953: evince respects pdf passwords, leading to user confusion when compared to xpdf

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt he at ftwca.de
Thu Mar 8 09:50:50 CET 2007


reassign 413953 libpoppler0c2
thanks

Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> writes:
> Since Debian's xpdf is uncripped to not ask for stupid pdf passwords,
> users can get really confused when evince asks for passwords for the
> same documents, as you can see in the forwarded message below.
>
> evince in Debian should have the same level of uncrippledness and
> freedom as xpdf.

This problem needs to be fixed in poppler, not in evince. evince just
gets POPPLER_ERROR_ENCRYPTED back from poppler and tries to get a
password for the document then.

Marc
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