Well...Attached is a PDF file. This file is a case action summary from v2.alacourt.com. (I'm a paralegal, I open tens or even a hundred of these a day.) The PDF files generated by Alacourt open fine in every PDF reader on every system except those based on libpoppler on Ubuntu. Here, they ask me for a password despite there being no password on the file. This seems to happen at random - some files do this, some do not. However, every PDF client using libpoppler has the same issue whenever it does occur, so I believe the issue is not in evince (the default PDF reader and the one I typically use) but rather a bug in the underlying library. There is one reader in the repos that does not use libpoppler that I tried before and it would work, but I don't see it in 10.04. Also, this exact same file will open fine in GIMP, but it's kinda stupid to have to open a document in an image editor just to read it.
If you'd like to test it like I have, open this file an Adobe Acrobat and it will render fine, no password requested. Same with Foxit Reader. Same with Sumatra. Same with Preview on OSX 10.5.8. Same with the PDF reader on my Android phone. There is no password on this file, and as such, no other reader asks for one, but for whatever unknown reason, anything based on libpoppler does.
Usually when this happens (on roughly half the files generated by alacourt, as well as one other site I visited once, I forget where) I just open it in Foxit via WINE, but not only am I getting sick and tired of that, I've also just "upgraded" from a 320GB HDD to a 16GB SSD (data is still on a USB HDD), so installing 100MB worth of WINE and Foxit is really, really undesirable right now.
I'm doing this in 10.04, however the same bug manifests itself on the same files in 9.10 and 9.04 as well. My hardware is an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.0GHz, 4GB DDR2, 16GB SSD, GeForce 9650m, don't even know the rest. I am running 64-bit, but I can also recreate the same issue in a fresh install of 9.10/9.04/10.04 32-bit on both real hardware and in a VirtualBox VM, so I am 100% certain this is NOT an issue related to my hardware. I will try any fix anyone suggests unless it is related to my hardware, that is just not the problem. I have partimage and have backed up the whole system so I would be willing to try a reinstall if necessary however I just installed this 9 days ago (a fresh install after formatting from 9.10) and the problem existed out of the box (as well as in 9.10), so I don't see how that will help.
Thoughts?
(Also, FYI, this is a case action summary and it is thus public record, so before anyone starts moaning about privilege to a certified paralegal as though I'm not already aware, it's fine. Not trying to be a preemptive prick, but I had 3 people on a forum reply to me a year ago about this the first time I tried to fix it in 9.04, and all any of them could do is try to educate ME about MY job rather than offer me any actual technical help.)
Not to sound impatient but is anyone working on this?