Very recently I had to convert a PDF (i.e. concatenate three PDFs into one file) and I was blocked for security reasons.
convert *pdf complete.pdf usually adds the files it finds in alphanumerical order to complete.pdf.
But not this time:
“convert: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy `PDF’ @ error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/408.”
Googling helped, as it often does, and I found this hint at [Imagemagick security policy ‘PDF’ blocking conversion – Stack Overflow] … :
“Well, I added
<policy domain=”coder” rights=”read | write” pattern=”PDF” />
I added just before in /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml and that makes it work again, but not sure about the security implications of that.”
A comment says that was a Ghostscript vulnerability, but new gs-versions are fine. Let’s hope that’s true…:-)
Update:
Since the convert process resulted in bad quality (after I applied the changes above), I had to do some more homework and play with the values of this convert command:
convert -density 200 -trim [Input_PDF_Files]* -quality 50 output.pdf
In my setup, that ends up with decent quality but 2.5 MByte per page.
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