[poppler] "Addition of stream::getChars" patch breaking lots of PDFs

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous, 5 d'agost de 2010, Harry Roberts va escriure:
> Just to give you all a heads up I've had to revert (in my local branch) the
> code which used getRawChars because it's breaking a huge number of PDFs.
> 
> See Albert's e-mail from 14 Jun:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/poppler@lists.freedesktop.org/msg03784.html
> 
> Has anybody else experienced this? I normally pull changes in from the main
> git repo every few weeks when I do test builds but only got round to
> debugging it today.
> 
> e.g. the error:
> 
> Internal: called getRawChars() on non-predictor stream
> 
> It looks quite trivial to implement `getRawChars` on regular `Streams`, but
> I've not tried it locally yet.

Make sure you rebuild your programs using libpoppler as my change breaks 
binary compatibility and if you don't rebuild your programs the incorrect 
symbols will be used resulting in weird behaviour.

If that fails provide a pdf that gets broken.

Albert