OWNER PASSWORD REQUIRED ERROR about docsplit HOT 7 CLOSED

Yep -- try qpdf --decrypt ... or use Preview to open it, and then to Print -> Save as PDF.

If you can't open it in Preview without the password, then it's truly locked down.

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Thanks. Would it be possible to bake this into docsplit? I feel more than obliged to contribute at this point.

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Hmm. Perhaps it would. We'd have to be able to detect the password protection ... but maybe a try/catch is good enough for getting that done. It would also be one more dependency, so making it optional would be ideal: if qpdf is installed, enable the feature, otherwise, no worries.

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My Ruby fu is weaker than a Drake rhyme, but would that be somewheres around here?

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Yep: https://github.com/documentcloud/docsplit/blob/master/lib/docsplit.rb#L104

But that doesn't tell you why it broke, so we don't just want to catch all exceptions ... only the ones where the PDF has an encryption problem.

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Okay. I have to grind some work stuff yet today, but I'll try to get back to this and stop being a total leech.

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Closing as stale.

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