Bug#413953: evince respects pdf passwords, leading to user confusion when compared to xpdf

[Joey Hess]

Package: evince
Version: 0.4.0-5

Since Debian's xpdf is uncripped to not ask for stupid pdf passwords,
users can get really confused when evince asks for passwords for the
same documents, as you can see in the forwarded message below.

evince in Debian should have the same level of uncrippledness and
freedom as xpdf.

FWIW, the pdf in question is a *public registration form*, so it's
absurd for it to have a password. It's possible that this is a password
that evince asks for while adobe stuff does not, as in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3498

----- Forwarded message -----

Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:21:00 -0500 (EST)
To: joey hess <joey at kitenet.net>
Subject: hmmm...

I'm trying to download a pdf from 
http://www.grads.vt.edu/forms/academics/ref_form.pdf.  The file opens fine 
in xpdf, but I don't know how to print from that.  When I ask it to print, 
I have to type in a command line --- maybe you can tell me how to do that?

I can print from the pdf viewer of evince, but when I try to open that 
form with the pdf viewer, it asks me for a password.  (I've opened lots of 
pdf files with evince and never been asked for a password before --- I 
suspect there's something wrong with their file.)

Solve my problem --- please! :-)

----- End forwarded message -----

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see shy jo
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