GNU bug report logs - #33684
DocView bombs out upon password protected PDFs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 10:54:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>, 33684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33684: DocView bombs out upon password protected PDFs
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:14:49 -0300

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積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> When trying to view a password protected PDF:
> DocView: process pdf/ps->png changed status to exited abnormally with code 1.
> Maybe it should ask for the password.
> emacs-version "25.2.2"

Would something like this make sense? A short patch that adds
`doc-view-pdf-password-protected-p', and an extra option to pass to
Ghostscript (-sPDFPassword=) when the command is invoked (only when the
PDF file is password protected). I tried it out by creating a
password-protected PDF using LibreOffice Writer, and then opening it
with find-file.


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