On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:05:08 +0200 Johann Felix Soden wrote: > Hi!
Hello! :) > > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010, 13:01 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:46:29 +0000 Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > pdftk y9s10pba.pdf input_pw ***** output y9s10pba-nopw.pdf > > > > > > gave the error message: > > > > > > Error: Failed to open PDF file: > > > y9s10pba.pdf > > > OWNER PASSWORD REQUIRED, but not given (or incorrect) > > > Errors encountered. No output created. > > > Done. Input errors, so no output created. > > [...] > > > > I've just experienced this bug with another password encrypted PDF file > > (that I can correctly read with xpdf). > > > Thanks for you report. You're welcome! > > Can you give me the version of pdftk you currently use > (e.g. by running "dpkg-query -W pdftk"), please? You're right: I forgot to mention that I am running Debian testing. The pdftk version is 1.41+dfsg-8 The system information for the box where I encountered the issue is pasted at the end of this message. > > If you want, you could send me the encrypted pdf file with the owner > password. This would be helpful to narrow down this bug. Unfortunately, that file includes reserved data: otherwise it would *not* be password-encrypted! ;-) I don't know if I am able to generate a test PDF file with the same type of password-encryption... :-( > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:47:28 +0100 Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > > There are a couple of annoying bugs like this one, I will see with > > > upstream what we can do about them... > > > > Is there any progress on this? > Upstream is unfortunately inactive for years. > In the meantime, the Debian version of pdftk, which is now maintained by > me, was heavily patched to support newer versions of the itext library > and to fix a lot of bugs. But I can not replace upstream completely. Any > help is welcomed. I can understand... I hope you can manage to fix the bug. > > Do you know the actively developed alternatives to pdftk like qpdf? By taking a quick look at its documentation, it seems that it lacks many useful pdftk features (concatenate PDF files, extract pages or group of pages, ...). Thanks anyway for pointing it out: it could be useful for other purposes. > > Best wishes, > Johann Felix Soden Bye and thanks for your time. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pdftk depends on: ii libbcmail-java 1.44+dfsg-2 Bouncy Castle generators/processor ii libbcprov-java 1.44+dfsg-2 Bouncy Castle Java Cryptographic S ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-5 GCC support library ii libgcj-bc 4.4.4-2 Link time only library for use wit ii libgcj10 4.4.4-3 Java runtime library for use with ii libitext-java 2.1.7-2 Java Library to create and manipul ii libitext-java-gcj 2.1.7-2 Java Library to create and manipul ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 pdftk recommends no packages. Versions of packages pdftk suggests: ii poppler-utils [xpdf-utils] 0.12.4-1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple -- no debconf information -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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