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Bug#369994: marked as done (kpdf cannot open password protected pdf files)

Your message dated Fri, 2 May 2008 01:13:43 +0530
with message-id <200805020113.44112.rrs@researchut.com>
and subject line Re: Bug#369994: kpdf cannot open password protected pdf files
has caused the Debian Bug report #369994,
regarding kpdf cannot open password protected pdf files
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Package: kpdf
Version: 4:3.5.2-1+b2
Severity: important

kpdf is not able to open password protected pdf files.
I've checked the same with xpdf and it can open the password protected pdf files.

Ritesh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (550, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (250, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-skas3-v8.2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages kpdf depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a               4:3.5.2-2+b1   core libraries for all KDE applica
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.3.2-1.1      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-2        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.1.0-4      GCC support library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-13          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpaper1                 1.1.17         Library for handling paper charact
ii  libqt3-mt                 3:3.3.6-2      Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6                4.1.0-4        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxft2                   2.1.8.2-5.1    FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-11     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages kpdf recommends:
ii  kghostview                  4:3.5.2-1+b2 PostScript viewer for KDE

-- no debconf information

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Thank you. You were absolutely correct. :-)
Closing the bug report.

Ritesh

On Friday 02 May 2008 00:53:10 Peder Chr. Nørgaard wrote:
> Hello.
> 	I ran into exactly the same problem - seemingly.  My monthly earning
> statements has started to come to me in an encrypted PDF file, and it
> looked to me as if kpdf sometimes refused to acknowledge the password.  I
> found this bugreport, and realized I had the same problem as had the
> submitter - my earning statements are confidential, too.  What I did next
> was to retrieve and compile the source codes for kdegraphics and xpdf for a
> pair of comparative gdb session.  At which time I discovered that the
> password I was prompted for was that of kdewallet - kpdf is activating
> kdewallet before it is asking for the pdf password, and if kdewallet has
> not been activated earlier in the KDE session, it is asking for password. 
> This explains why I sometimes succeeded in opening the files and sometimes
> not.
>
> 	First I felt a little stupid, but then I realized that this is actual a
> very easy observation mistake to make.  You expect a prompt for a password,
> you get one, then you don't read the prompt text.
>
> 	Could it be that the submitter of this bug report has made the same
> observation mistake?  If that is the case the bug could be closed.
>
> best regards



-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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