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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: None

Since 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!