pdftk enforces lame pseudo-drm
Bug #127389 reported by
Georg Sauthoff
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pdftk (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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pdftk (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pdftk
Hi,
(at least in Ubuntu 7.05 && pdftk 1.4)
well, pdftk honors some pdf flag by default, that says "don't let the user to process this pdf (like extract images) - only display the complete pdf (like in acroread)".
Because this annoys me very much, I wrote this really trivial patch for pdftk 1.2 to change the coded default. It is attached and works with pdftk 1.4, too.
Please apply.
Best regards
Georg Sauthoff
Changed in pdftk (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in pdftk (Debian): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in pdftk (Debian): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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Thanks for the patch. While the password owner check is trivial to circumvent, it is part of the PDF spec, and so breaking the implementation is not something that would be done in Ubuntu. I've not been able to find a method to forward this patch upstream for consideration, but found a reference to what is perhaps reasoning behind the choice from http:// www.lagotzki. de/pdftk/ index.html# FAQ (German).