[pdftex] pdtex 1.40.6

[Reinhard Kotucha]

John Culleton writes:
 > On Monday 04 February 2008 09:48:23 am Martin Schröder wrote:
 > > http://sarovar.org/download.php/1218/pdftex-1.40.5-1.40.6.diff.gz
 > > http://sarovar.org/download.php/1219/pdftex-1.40.6.tar.bz2
 > > http://sarovar.org/download.php/1220/pdftex-1.40.6.tgz
 > > http://sarovar.org/download.php/1221/pdftex-1.40.6.zip
 > >
 > > The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version:
 > >
 > > ===========================================================================
 > >                                pdfTeX 1.40.6
 > > ===========================================================================
 > >
 > > This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.6, an extended version of TeX that
 > > can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX
 > > typesetting with the help of PDF.
 > >
 > > ===========================================================================
 > >   Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.6
 > > ===========================================================================
 > >
 > > - Bugfixes:
 > >   - inclusion of encrypted PDFs was broken (861)
 > 
 > But can pdftex now encrypt output pdfs itself?

There had been support for pdf encryption in a former release of
pdftex.  The reason it had been removed was that it made pdftex more
difficult to maintain.

If you want to encrypt your documents, what I propose is to use pdftk.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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