25 Aug
2024
25 Aug
'24
1:24 p.m.
On Sunday 25 Aug 2024 12:32:04 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
I just found that KPDF is (again) asking for a password on
non-password-protected PDFs and fails to open the PDF if no password is
given. The PDF preview in konqueror is fine. I have attached a PDF that
triggers the behaviour on my system (KPDF 14.2.0~pre65-0debian13.0.0+3~a).
Could somebody please verify?
Nik
Hello,
I tried to open your file ch32v003rm.pdf in Okular, running in Trinity, and it
asked for a password. I am running an old Trinity system, installed around
March 2017 over KDE4 installed from a late version of Debian Jessie, and I can
choose whether I use Trinity versions or KDE4 versions of programs. I always
use Okular to read pdf files. Looking at About KDE, under Help in Okular,
shows KDE Platform Version 4.14.2. Looking at About Okular, shows Okular
Version 0.20.2, Using KDE Development Platform 4.14.2.
I saved your file from KMail to Documents/ before trying to open it in Okular,
so the problem with Okular asking for a password for the file is not caused by
trying to open it directly from KMail.
I first saw this strange behaviour, where Okular asks for a password for one
of my own files, that I never encrypted and never assigned a password for,
just about a month or two ago. I have been using Okular in Trinity to read
pdf files since around March 2017, exactly the same Okular, with no new
installation or update, and no change to my Trinity platform, since the
original installation around March 2017.
The pdf files which Okular suddenly started asking for a password for, are pdf
files that I sent to myself as email attachments to an email sent via Google
GMail, as a convenient means of sending the files from one computer to
another. I can read those pdf files by logging in to Google GMail and reading
them IN GMAIL, but it seems that GMail started encrypting pdf files sent as
attachments via GMail, some time around September last year. I never tried to
look at the pdf files I sent via GMail last September, until a month or two
ago, which was when I first saw the problem. pdf files sent as attachments
via GMail before around September last year seem to be unencrypted, while pdf
files sent as attachments via GMail from around September last year onwards,
seem to be encrypted, and can only be read IN GMAIL.
Chris