Weird, it works fine for me with AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 (and if the document has the password set to test).It still doesn't work for me.
Yes - you're right, but it's much work to parse the pdf trailer and fetch the information from it. Sorry, but at the moment, only the additional ini option is supported.Even worse: I don't understand the concept. A password is file dependent. The user should be asked to enter a password if one is required to open the specific file. At the moment the parameter is included everytime, which doesn't make sense to me.
With best regards,
~ Florian