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Is pdf for mat dropped?
Hi everybody!
First of all thanks for all the work you guys are doing for mat. Over time it has become one of my standard installs.
Having said that, I have a questions about the latest version. We're in the process of upgrading our boxen from *buntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS. And as such, mat is (re)installed, together with its dependencies (python-mutagen python-pdfrw libimage-exiftool-perl gir1.2-poppler-0.18)
Today, one of our users mentioned that the mat version on his newly installed system did not support PFDs any more.
Checking, mat does indeed give a File format not supported.
Curious, I compared the mat install on a 16.04 (which works absolutely fine) with a 18.04 install and saw:
bella@bbdd140hh6i:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
bella@bbdd140hh6i:~$ dpkg -l mat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-===============================================================
ii mat 0.6.1-2 all Metadata anonymisation toolkit
bella@bbdd140hh6i:~$ mat -l
Tagged Image File Format (.tif, .tiff)
support: Full
metadata: Textual metadata and date
method: Removal of harmful fields with exiftool.
remaining: None
Portable Network Graphics (.png)
support: Full
metadata: Textual metadata and date
method: Removal of harmful fields with exiftool.
remaining: None
Jpeg (.jpeg, .jpg)
support: Partial
metadata: Comments and exif/photoshop/adobe
method: Removal of harmful fields with exiftool.
remaining: Canon Raw tags
Open Document (.odt, .odx, .ods, ...)
support: Full
metadata: A meta.xml file
method: Removal of the meta.xml file.
remaining: None
Office Openxml (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, ...)
support: Full
metadata: A docProps folder containings xml metadata files.
method: Removal of the docProps folder
remaining: None
Portable Document Fileformat (.pdf)
support: Full
metadata: A lot
method: Rendering of the PDF file on a cairo surface with the help of poppler.
remaining: None**
Tape ARchive (.tar, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz)
support: Full
metadata: Metadata from compressed files, metadata added to them by tar and metadata from the tar itself.
method: Extraction and processing of each file, creation of a new archive, processing of this archive.
remaining: None
Zip (.zip)
support: Partial
metadata: Metadata from compressed files, metadata added to them by zip and metadata from the zip itself.
method: Extraction and processing of each file, creation of a new archive, processing of this archive.
remaining: Metadata added by zip itself to internal files
MPEG Audio (.mp3, .mp2, .mp1, .mpa)
support: Full
metadata: Id3
method: Removal of harmful fields with exiftool
remaining: None
Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
support: Full
metadata: Vorbis
method: Removal of harmful fields with mutagen
remaining: None
Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
support: Full
metadata: Flac, Vorbis
method: Removal of harmful fields with mutagen
remaining: None
Torrent (.torrent)
support: Full
metadata: Torrent specific metadata
method: Remove all the compromizing metadata with a heavily tuned version of the bencode lib by Petru Paled
remaining: None...and...
bella@saarghcentral:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
bella@saarghcentral:~$ dpkg -l mat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-===============================================================
ii mat 0.6.1-4 all Metadata anonymisation toolkit
bella@saarghcentral:~$ mat -l
Tagged Image File Format (.tif, .tiff)
support: Full
metadata: Textual metadata and date
method: Removal of harmful fields with exiftool.
remaining: None
Portable Network Graphics (.png)
support: Full
metadata: Textual metadata and date
method: Removal of harmful fields with exiftool.
remaining: None
Jpeg (.jpeg, .jpg)
support: Partial
metadata: Comments and exif/photoshop/adobe
method: Removal of harmful fields with exiftool.
remaining: Canon Raw tags
Open Document (.odt, .odx, .ods, ...)
support: Full
metadata: A meta.xml file
method: Removal of the meta.xml file.
remaining: None
Office Openxml (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, ...)
support: Full
metadata: A docProps folder containings xml metadata files.
method: Removal of the docProps folder
remaining: None
Tape ARchive (.tar, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz)
support: Full
metadata: Metadata from compressed files, metadata added to them by tar and metadata from the tar itself.
method: Extraction and processing of each file, creation of a new archive, processing of this archive.
remaining: None
Zip (.zip)
support: Partial
metadata: Metadata from compressed files, metadata added to them by zip and metadata from the zip itself.
method: Extraction and processing of each file, creation of a new archive, processing of this archive.
remaining: Metadata added by zip itself to internal files
MPEG Audio (.mp3, .mp2, .mp1, .mpa)
support: Full
metadata: Id3
method: Removal of harmful fields with exiftool
remaining: None
Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
support: Full
metadata: Vorbis
method: Removal of harmful fields with mutagen
remaining: None
Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
support: Full
metadata: Flac, Vorbis
method: Removal of harmful fields with mutagen
remaining: None
Torrent (.torrent)
support: Full
metadata: Torrent specific metadata
method: Remove all the compromizing metadata with a heavily tuned version of the bencode lib by Petru Paled
remaining: NoneSince the only difference I can spot is the difference in mat version numbers (i.e. 0.6.1-2 vs 0.6.1-4) and the fact that pdf is no longer listed under mat -l I just wanted to make sure:
Is support for pdf dropped in mat version 0.6.1-4, or should I be looking at a different cause for this?
Thanks in advance!