<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED - wrong render result" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85919#c12">Comment # 12</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED - wrong render result" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85919">bug 85919</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:Thomas.Freitag@alfa.de" title="Thomas Freitag <Thomas.Freitag@alfa.de>"> Thomas Freitag</a> <pre>I'm not sure if it is a good idea to search for the last startxref in a PDF without at least a warning that it wasn't found at the end of the PDF, it could break the recovery algorithm: According to the spec the startxref entry should be at the end of a PDF file: % Offset of first-page cross-reference table (part 3) startxref 257 %% EOF And there could be several startxref entries in a PDF file: in case of an incremental update new PDF objects and the new xref table and the new pointer to the xref table are just appended. So if You don't find the startxref at the end of the file there is a good chance that the PDF file is broken and should be recovered!</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>