Ubuntu
okular package

okular respects adobe drm

Bug #1083321 reported by janl
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
okular (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Downloaded some tickets from the norwegian ticket master. Wanted to cut and paste the text from the ticket to a email. Got told that the text was DRM protected and that I could not.

I'm not using Linux because I think highly of DRM.

Evince let me copy the text just fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: okular 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 26 22:07:52 2012
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: okular
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-03 (23 days ago)

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janl (janl) wrote :
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

You can configure whether or not Okular respects the DRM within the settings, but the default will not be changed. (See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531221)

Changed in okular (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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janl (janl) wrote : Re: [Bug 1083321] Re: okular respects adobe drm

On 11/27/2012 12:57 AM, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> You can configure whether or not Okular respects the DRM within the
> settings, but the default will not be changed. (See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531221)
>
> ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #531221
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531221

Upstreams wish to adhere to the ISO standard is very touching but
irrelevant to all of Debian, Ubuntu and GNU and IMHO also voilates the
principle of least surprise.

Fixing this in ubuntu or upstream will be less of a burden on human kind
than thousands of users wondering why they don't have full access to
their own documents and not being able to figure out why and how to fix.

But whatever, I'll flip the bit and _I_ will be happy. Mostly.

I probably sound negative, but I should add that I've been happily using
KDE on ubuntu for years and years and I'm also very happy that I don't
have to use Gnome or Windows. The inclusion of KDE in ubuntu is a far
greater good than whatever quibbles I have about adobe drm.

Thanks,
   Nicolai

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