[pdftex] pdfcrypt

[Anthony Wood]

We had problems with pdfcrypt also, we use a very hacky workaround, create the pdf without encryption,
then use a second latex file to include that whole pdf in a second, encrypted PDF.

Hack, but it works for us, it may work for you.

Woody

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:37:58AM +0200, Thierry Bouche wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   I'm testing pdf crypt together with pdfpages: I'm making a PDF with
>   pdflatex and a special class that loads hyperref, pdfpages and
>   pdfcrypt.sty.
> 
>   I'm using
> 
> pdfeTeX (Web2c 7.3.7x) 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1
> kpathsea version 3.3.7
> Copyright (C) 1999 The NTS Team (eTeX)/Han The Thanh, Petr Sojka, and Jiri Zlatuska (pdfTeX).
> Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
> covered by the terms of both the pdfeTeX copyright and
> the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the files
> named COPYING and the pdfeTeX source.
> Primary author of pdfeTeX: The NTS Team (eTeX)/Han The Thanh, Petr Sojka, and Jiri Zlatuska (pdfTeX).
> Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.
> 
> (Fabrice's win32 version)
> 
> % File:      pdfcrypt.sty
> % Version:   2001/08/09 v0.6
> 
> {pdfpages}[2002/10/01 v0.2k Insert pages of external PDF documents (AM)]
> 
> 
>   Having pdfcrypt in the class file, I need to put the set option in
>   order to have encryption (I thought it was early enough, but doesn't
>   seem to be). Then my file makes a vector page, and includes with
>   pdfpage all the pages from a bitmap PDF (which has hidden text
>   objects). The resulting PDF has some unexpected garbage somewhere that
>   prevent it from showing the first bitmap page (all other pages are
>   correctly shown). Without encryption, everything goes fine. Did anyone
>   experiment something similar, or could give me any hint how to solve
>   this problem?
>   
> 
> Thanks,
>  Thierry
> 
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-- 
Woody