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Jay Berkenbilt e57c25814e Support for encryption with /V=5 and /R=5 and /R=6
Read and write support is implemented for /V=5 with /R=5 as well as
/R=6.  /R=5 is the deprecated encryption method used by Acrobat IX.
/R=6 is the encryption method used by PDF 2.0 from ISO 32000-2.
2012-12-31 10:32:32 -05:00

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General
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* Improve the random number seed to make it more secure so that we
have stronger random numbers, particularly when multiple files are
generated in the same second. This code may need to be
OS-specific. Probably we should add a method in QUtil to seed with
a strong random number and call this automatically the first time
QUtil::random() is called.
* Consider the possibility of doing something locale-aware to support
non-ASCII passwords. Update documentation if this is done.
* Look for %PDF header somewhere within the first 1024 bytes of the
file. Also accept headers of the form "%!PSAdobeN.n PDFM.m".
See Implementation notes 13 and 14 in appendix H of the PDF 1.7
specification. This is bug 3267974.
* Consider impact of article threads on page splitting/merging.
Subramanyam provided a test file; see ../misc/article-threads.pdf.
Email Q-Count: 431864 from 2009-11-03. Other things to consider:
outlines, page labels, thumbnails, zones. There are probably
others.
* See if we can avoid preserving unreferenced objects in object
streams even when preserving the object streams.
* For debugging linearization bugs, consider adding an option to save
pass 1 of linearization. This code is sufficient. Change the
interface to allow specification of a pass1 file, which would
change the behavior as in this patch.
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Index: QPDFWriter.cc
===================================================================
--- QPDFWriter.cc (revision 932)
+++ QPDFWriter.cc (working copy)
@@ -1965,11 +1965,15 @@
// Write file in two passes. Part numbers refer to PDF spec 1.4.
+ FILE* XXX = 0;
for (int pass = 1; pass <= 2; ++pass)
{
if (pass == 1)
{
- pushDiscardFilter();
+// pushDiscardFilter();
+ XXX = fopen("/tmp/pass1.pdf", "w");
+ pushPipeline(new Pl_StdioFile("pass1", XXX));
+ activatePipelineStack();
}
// Part 1: header
@@ -2204,6 +2208,8 @@
// Restore hint offset
this->xref[hint_id] = QPDFXRefEntry(1, hint_offset, 0);
+ fclose(XXX);
+ XXX = 0;
}
}
}
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* Provide APIs for embedded files. See *attachments*.pdf in test
suite. The private method findAttachmentStreams finds at least
cases for modern versions of Adobe Reader (>= 1.7, maybe earlier).
PDF Reference 1.7 section 3.10, "File Specifications", discusses
this.
A sourceforge user asks if qpdf can handle extracting and embedded
resources and references these tools, which may be useful as a
reference.
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/pdf/Extract.html
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/pdf/Embed.html
* The description of Crypt filters is unclear with respect to how to
use them to override /StmF for specific streams. I'm not sure
whether qpdf will do the right thing for any specific individual
streams that might have crypt filters. The specification seems to
imply that only embedded file streams and metadata streams can have
crypt filters, and there are already special cases in the code to
handle those. Most likely, it won't be a problem, but someday
someone may find a file that qpdf doesn't work on because of crypt
filters. There is an example in the spec of using a crypt filter
on a metadata stream.
For now, we notice /Crypt filters and decode parameters consistent
with the example in the PDF specification, and the right thing
happens for metadata filters that happen to be uncompressed or
otherwise compressed in a way we can filter. This should handle
all normal cases, but it's more or less just a guess since I don't
have any test files that actually use stream-specific crypt filters
in them.
* The second xref stream for linearized files has to be padded only
because we need file_size as computed in pass 1 to be accurate. If
we were not allowing writing to a pipe, we could seek back to the
beginning and fill in the value of /L in the linearization
dictionary as an optimization to alleviate the need for this
padding. Doing so would require us to pad the /L value
individually and also to save the file descriptor and determine
whether it's seekable. This is probably not worth bothering with.
* The whole xref handling code in the QPDF object allows the same
object with more than one generation to coexist, but a lot of logic
assumes this isn't the case. Anything that creates mappings only
with the object number and not the generation is this way,
including most of the interaction between QPDFWriter and QPDF. If
we wanted to allow the same object with more than one generation to
coexist, which I'm not sure is allowed, we could fix this by
changing xref_table. Alternatively, we could detect and disallow
that case. In fact, it appears that Adobe reader and other PDF
viewing software silently ignores objects of this type, so this is
probably not a big deal.
* Pl_PNGFilter is only partially implemented. If we ever decoded
images, we'd have to finish implementing it along with the other
filter decode parameters and types. For just handling xref
streams, there's really no need as it wouldn't make sense to use
any kind of predictor other than 12 (PNG UP filter).
* If we ever want to have check mode check the integrity of the free
list, this can be done by looking at the code from prior to the
object stream support of 4/5/2008. It's in an if (0) block and
there's a comment about it. There's also something about it in
qpdf.test -- search for "free table". On the other hand, the value
of doing this seems very low since no viewer seems to care, so it's
probably not worth it.
* QPDFObjectHandle::getPageImages() doesn't notice images in
inherited resource dictionaries. See comments in that function.
* Based on an idea suggested by user "Atom Smasher", consider
providing some mechanism to recover earlier versions of a file
embedded prior to appended sections.
* From a suggestion in bug 3152169, consider having an option to
re-encode inline images with an ASCII encoding.
* From github issue 2, provide more in-depth output for examining
hint stream contents.