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Security settings in a PDF cause Prinergy refining to fail with message "Error extracting page attributes from PDF file"


Product

  Prinergy 1.1; Prinergy Connect 2.0

Platform

 

Server: Dell or Data General all; Client: PC or Macintosh

Operating system

 

Server: Windows NT or 2000; Client: Windows or Mac


Error

 

"Error extracting page attributes from PDF file"

OR

"PDF Library Error: This operation is not permitted. (1073938472)"


Symptoms

 

An attempt to refine a file in Prinergy fails, with an error message indicating that an error was encountered while trying to extract page attributes from the file, or that the operation is not permitted.


Cause

  The PDF file has some security settings enabled. Prinergy requires full access to PDFs.

Solution

 

Open the PDF, entering the security password. Set Security to "No Security", then save. Refine the saved PDF.

OR

If the PDF-creator has not password-protected the opening of the file, it will be possible to open the PDF and Save As to a new PDF name without any security settings. No password would be necessary. Refine the new saved PDF.

In Prinergy 2.1, you can automatically enter the password for many PDFs with the same password, using the "Secure PDF Password" portion of the Normalize process plan. Note that this does not work with the 128-bit encryption option of PDF 1.4 from Distiller 5.

Permanent fix:


See also

 


Keywords

 

acrobat, PDF, refiner


Technical contact(s)
 

James Bredenhof

Submitted by
 

Gordon Miller

Date submitted
 

11 Feb 2001


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