Re: Workaround: KPDF asks for password on some PDFs

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Anno domini 2025 Wed, 19 Feb 14:31:26 -0600
 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users scripsit:
> On 2025-02-19 13:34:34 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
> > On 2025-02-19 04:01:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > This Workaround is for all that are plaged by kpdf not able to open
> > > encrypted PDFs. - It decrypts PDFs with the infamouse empty password
> > > (that failes on libpoppler) - It asks for the password for encrypted PDFs
> > > and removes the encryption (if password is correct)
> > >
> > > How to use:
> > > - Save the attached program to your ~/bin (or wherever you would like it
> > > to reside) - Change the file association for PDF to use this program -
> > > Open some encrypted/not-encrypted PDFs that did not work in plain kpdf.
> > >
> > > Commandline: "/where/ever/you/put/it/decrypt-pdf" PDF.pdf ...
> > >
> > > TDE specific file URLS like sftp:// don't work, but maybe "somebody"
> > > feels the need to add those.
> > >
> > > --> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
> > >
> > > Enjoy.
> > > Nik
> > >
> > > --
> > > Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing
> > > with the NSA, CIA ...
> >
> > 	And in openSUSE, pdfinfo is provided by the pdf-tools package.
> >
> 	Hm... and my version of qpdf doesn't support --remove-restrictions. :-(

That's bad. I have devuan ceres, qpdf is version 11.10.0-1. I'm quite sure the version from debian stable and newer also support --remove-restrictions.

Nik

> Leslie
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> Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64
> Desktop Environment: Trinity
> Qt: 3.5.0
> TDE: R14.1.3
> tde-config: 1.0
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