On Wednesday 04 August 2021 01:58:22 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Hi all!
Giving this PDF
https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/2304760.pdf kpdf
requires a password to open it while firefox does not.
Anybody knows the reason for this?
Nik
Well, I can confirm that kpdf will not open this document on my machine. I did
not get asked for a password, but then I had a ton of other pdf documents
open, so that probably interferes with some functions.
I haven't tried to open it with any other programs yet, but it occurs to me
that maybe you can open it in another pdf program (e.g., maybe pdftk or
xpdf?), then save it under a different file name. I don't know if Firefox can
do that.
Did you take care to disable the DRM settings? That doesn't seem like it would
ordinarily have anything to do with passwords, but it makes no sense that one
program would open it but another wants a password.
Bill
P.S. Breaking news: As I was clicking to send this email, I got a notification
that kpdf wanted permission to access my tdewallet ... which does sound very
suspicious. Why would kpdf need access to the passwords in my wallet?