[okular] [Bug 420726] I discovered free open source library for PDF secure reduction. Can this implemented in Okular for secure reduction eraser?

[David Hurka]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420726

David Hurka <david.hurka at mailbox.org> changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL
             Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED

--- Comment #3 from David Hurka <david.hurka at mailbox.org> ---
Okular itself does not handle PDF documents, it uses so called Generators for
that. The PDF generator uses poppler as PDF library. So implementing your
suggested feature would mean that the Generator interface needs to be expanded,
and the PDF generator has to use two PDF libraries, which communicate via PDF.
So from a technical point of view, Okular is not well prepared for adding
various PDF manipulation features, including this one.

In the other bug you called reduction a hidden feature. I agree that it is a
hidden feature from a user point of view, but it is hidden because:
- It is not intended to be a feature
- Okular developers don’t feel the need to make such a feature available
- It performs very bad

Options to promote this feature don’t seem good to me:
- The current “implementation” is very bad
- Adding a good implementation would be disproportionately complex,
  due to there reasons mentioned above
- Okular developers feel that this feature doesn’t really fit Okular’s scope.

I am closing this bug now. Reopen if you can show that my arguments don’t hold.

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