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Bug 301498 - document requires password in evince but not acrobat
document requires password in evince but not acrobat
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.1.x
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 321152 344497 346359 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-21 19:20 UTC by Ben C
Modified: 2006-08-06 10:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Ben C 2005-04-21 19:20:23 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
The following document opens fine with adobe acrobat but evince states that it
is locked and requires a password:

http://ucfv.ca/ar/200505/UCFVTimetable.pdf

The link is from http://ucfv.ca/ar

Note that GPDF does this as well; I've not tried XPDF yet - so I'm not sure if
this is a "default" password with adobe or whether evince is sharing a bug with
GPDF.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open http://ucfv.ca/ar/200505/UCFVTimetable.pdf with evince.
2. 
3. 


Actual results:
Evince asks for a password to open the document.

Expected results:
Evince should just open the document.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
Comment 1 Ben C 2005-04-21 19:35:21 UTC 
A little more info; acrobat reader states "security method is password security"
--- odd considering it opens without typing one, and that it is a public document.
Comment 2 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-05-09 09:19:27 UTC 
Test with xpdf would be very useful.
Comment 3 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-05-09 09:20:15 UTC 
Test with xpdf would be very useful.
Comment 4 Bryan W Clark 2005-05-10 04:46:51 UTC 
Here's my test w/ xpdf.  It printed that stuff out, then asked me for a
password, I hit [OK] and it wouldn't let me see the document.  

[clarkbw@rhbw bin]$ xpdf UCFVTimetable.pdf
Error: Unsupported version/revision (4/4) of Standard security handler
Error: Couldn't read xref table

Acroread 5 couldn't open the document.  It popped up an error about decrypting it.

[clarkbw@rhbw bin]$ pdf2ps UCFVTimetable.pdf
****This file uses an unknown standard security handler revision: 4
Error: /undefined in pdf_check_user_password
Comment 5 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-05-10 07:43:29 UTC 
To the reporter, which version of acrobat was able to open this?
Comment 6 Ben C 2005-05-13 02:41:43 UTC 
I'm using version 7 to read it.  The site says version 6 is required - I 
couldn't read it with 5.
Comment 7 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-06-07 12:16:58 UTC 
Hi, this looks like a bug with the PDF backend.  Could you please follow these
instructions to help get this 
 bug fixed.  Thank You. http://live.gnome.org/Evince/PopplerBugs#poppler
Comment 8 Bryan W Clark 2005-07-08 17:44:19 UTC 
The FDO Bug is here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3498
Comment 9 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2005-11-10 21:09:53 UTC 
*** Bug 321152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Elijah Newren 2006-06-10 18:14:31 UTC 
*** Bug 344497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-08-06 10:27:23 UTC 
*** Bug 346359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***