Re: fix for 687135, pdf file processing error

Ray Johnston <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.patches
Organization Artifex Software Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex,

The PDF spec says that ID is required when encrption is used.

Please add a 'pdfformaterror' Warning saying that the required
ID is missing, then commit the patch and close the bug.

Regards,
Ray
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Alex Cherepanov wrote:
> Igor wrote:
>  > Please explain why the empty string is an acceptable default.
> 
> First, empty string seems to be a logical default value.
> Second, this string is used to calculate decryption
> passwords. Since the file is displayed correctly, the default
> value is right.
> 
> I've tested some other strings and they indeed decrypt
> the file to garbage.
> 
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Ray Johnston
Director of Engineering                          Tel: (714) 484-0376
Artifex Software Inc.                            Fax: (714) 220-1022
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