I get some financial statements in the form of password-protected pdf files. Needless to say, the passwords are set by the senders using some combination of my personal data. Since they're a pain to remember, I've been using the facility in Evince to "unlock forever" so that I subsequently don't have to re-enter (and remember each password). However, this unlocking is restricted to Evince because Evince just stores the password and supplies it the next time I open the file. An alternative is to use qpdf to decrypt the file once and for all. qpdf is a tiny install and the syntax isn't too challenging: Code: qpdf --password=PASSWORD --decrypt infile.pdf outfile.pdf
