[poppler] PDF Spec and reality, what to do?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

That's fine.

Acrobat/Reader don't necessary enforce those limits, but usually they  
are based on internal data structures, etc.  So it may be that our  
buffer for names is limited to 127 bytes (why, who knows??!) and so  
we truncate.

Personally, if you want to go beyond that an offer unlimited sized  
names when reading, it won't hurt anythnig.  Just don't write them  
larger than 127.

Leonard

On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> If you have a look at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi? 
> id=14337
> you'll find a PDF that has a name of more than 127 characters, that  
> is the
> most we parse because it's an "Implementation limit" as specified  
> in Appendix
> C of the specification.
>
> Although, if you open the said file with acroread, it works.
>
> So i suggest to apply the following patch effectively doubling the max
> characters we accept as name length.
>
> Comments?
>
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