GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 166443
PDF password required, weird encryption info
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
Version details: 0.1.3 Distribution/Version: FC3 # wget "http://v3.espacenet.com/pdfdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US6289364&F=128&QPN=US6289364&PGN=1" # evince pdfdoc\?DB\=EPODOC\&IDX\=US6289364\&F\=128\&QPN\=US6289364\&PGN\=1 on console I see: Error: Weird encryption info Error: Couldn't read xref table Window dialog opens: Password required Same error for xpdf, gpdf (I believe they share the same source). Works ok with acroread. Acroread claims: User Password: No Master Password: No Encryption Level: 40-bit RC4 (Acrobat 3.x, 4.x)
Hmm, I'm getting errors with Acrobat 5.10 on this document. The first page is visible, however there are errors on all other pages.
If one would wget these pages http://v3.espacenet.com/pdfdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US6289364&F=128&QPN=US6289364&PGN=1 http://v3.espacenet.com/pdfdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US6289364&F=128&QPN=US6289364&PGN=2 http://v3.espacenet.com/pdfdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US6289364&F=128&QPN=US6289364&PGN=3 then the first _three_ pages of the document would work in acroread. The document seems to be divideed into many single page documents.
acroread seems to be reading each document individually as it gets to it. I have no idea what's going on here, but Evince definitely doesn't support it right now. Marking low since this is definitely the PDF backend that needs the work, not really Evince.
Looks like a poppler bug please follow these instructions: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/helping.html#poppler
poppler bug opened https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2936