Loviewer doesn't support documents protected by a password

[Brad Johnson]

Trying to open a LibreOffice document protected by a password, the app says that the document may be corrupt.

SOLUTION:
Add support for protected documents as this feature will be available in LibreOfficeKit. Progress on this will be tracked on this report.

See bug #1524712 , which is related to the wrong error string.

[Stefano Verzegnassi (verzegnassi-stefano)]

Hi and thanks for reporting the issue you found in Document Viewer!

Could you please tell me which version are you using?
In the version 2.0.193-beta (the one released for testing a few weeks ago), there's no error detection and/or recovery, so the app crashes when an exception is raised.

This has been already fixed, and a dialog is shown when something unexpected happens.

Anyway, we don't handle documents with password yet, so I can already confirm your report.

LibreOfficeKit doesn't seem to provide any explicit interface for loading documents protected by a password.
However, the library is under an heavy development and some part of the library is partially undocumented, so I need to check if my assumption is right.

Also, the error detection we have already implemented doesn't consider the scenario you described.

I suspect I'll have to split your report in two parts:
1) Add support for documents protected by a password
2) Properly detect when the loading failed because of the file being protected.

I'll be back again as soon as I have further informations.

Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug!

[Stefano Verzegnassi (verzegnassi-stefano)]

I had a deeper look at it.
It seems there's no reasonable way for loading documents protected by a password yet.
This is anyway something we will want to support, so I'm going to mark this report as "Wishlist".

From my previous reply (#1):
> 1) Add support for documents protected by a password
It will be tracked here.

> 2) Properly detect when the loading failed because of the file being protected.
See bug #1524712

[Stefano Verzegnassi (verzegnassi-stefano)]

Recently it has been committed a change in the development version of LibreOffice which adds the support for protected documents in LibreOfficeKit.
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/2b63e576a5cf06f4af877d63403ad7955ac71b72

It should be released with LibreOffice 5.2 (August, 2016).
For the DocViewer this would mean Sep/Oct 2016