Evince cannot unlock passwordprotected pdf with compatibility Acrobat 9 and later (256-bit AES)

[ggerri]

Binary package hint: evince

If you save a pdf with password protection, setting password security setting to 'Compatibility: Acrobat 9.0 and later' and therfore encrption level 256-bit AES, evince cannot open the file. It just says 'invalid password'. Saving the file with compatibility for Acrobat 7.0 (128bit-AES) the file can be opened without a problem. The file was saved with Adobe Pro CS4.

I'm using You are using Ubuntu 9.10 and Document Viewer 2.28.1.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 12 19:27:11 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2426): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2426): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2592): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2581): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:3124): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thanks for the report, this is similar to bug 472538 and is a known limitation of poppler (the pdf renderer) at the moment.