On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 03:04:39PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: >On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 03:00:28PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: >> On a first thought, I would say that the document uses an unknown >> password encoding to pdftk.
I just wondered for a moment whether this was not due to the fact that pdftk no longer relies on the old embedded gcj/classpath source code. Therefore I tested pdftk 1.40-2 on Etch, but it has the same bug. The culprit is probably the iText library bundled with pdftk which is quite old and its PDF encryption code located in com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfEncryption.java is probably out of date. Perhaps working towards an update of that library (and hence a port of pdftk to the last version of iText) would be the way to go. There are a couple of annoying bugs like this one, I will see with upstream what we can do about them... >> On a side note, do you mind if the password were to be publicly given >> on the BTS? > >I'd prefer not. This is a site with wonderful resources for school >use, but answers to several of the sections, as well as diagnostic >tests, are password protected. The password is only available to >schools. If anyone does require the password for diagnostics, they >can email either me or you. OK. Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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