[PLUG] Printing PDF files

[Tom]

You shy away from naming the bank ... 
My bank - First Tech FCU encrypts the statements and restricts their
printing in PDF.
I have no idea why would one wanted to do this, they apparently do no
have any idea themselves too.
However, they also do not seem to be able to do anything about it.
I do wonder why I trust them with my money, when they do not
what/why/how they operate the business.
Technically:
The encryption, which is needed to enforce their stupid anti-print DRM
rule uses empty password - thankfully.
So every now and then, I use following qpdf in a bash script to strip
off that nonsensical DRM:
https://github.com/tomas-kuchta/decryptPdfs/blob/master/decryptPdfs.bas
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If your problem is identical fell free to reuse/learn from the code.
Tomas
On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 12:58 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    I download monthly business account statements from my bank's
> website as
> PDF files and save them with names I give them. (My names are
> different from
> the string of numbers the bank gives them.) For a reason I've not yet
> found,
> they will not print from the command line (lpr) nor from within xpdf.
> They
> display in the CUPS jobs page as 'rendering completed' but never make
> it to
> the printer. Using MasterPDFEditor I can print them. However, despite
> MPE
> being configured to print double-sided they come out single sided.
> 
>    If you have any thoughts on why a) they won't print using lpr or
> that
> command within xpdf or b) why they print single-sided while the
> printer is
> configured for double-sided printing please share them with me.
> 
> Rich
> 
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