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title="NEW - pdfunite introduces syntax error / illegal characters (as per pdfinfo)"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103873">103873</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>pdfunite introduces syntax error / illegal characters (as per pdfinfo)
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<th>Product</th>
<td>poppler
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>utils
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>poppler-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>tom.ty89@gmail.com
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=135691" name="attach_135691" title="Source file">attachment 135691</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=135691&action=edit" title="Source file">[details]</a></span>
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I split the attached pdf with `pdfseparate`. If I then merge some of the
resulted files again with `pdfunite`, "Syntax Error" / "Illegal character"(s)
are found by `pdfinfo` on the resulted files. The problem could be triggered by
page 2 and 3, other pages seem fine.
Version: 0.61.1
Steps to reproduce:
$ pdfinfo pst-book-gog.pdf >/dev/null
$ mkdir sep uni
$ cd sep/
$ pdfseparate -f 2 -l 3 ../pst-book-gog.pdf %03d.pdf
$ pdfinfo 002.pdf >/dev/null
$ pdfinfo 003.pdf >/dev/null
$ cd ../uni/
$ pdfunite ../sep/002.pdf 002.pdf
$ pdfunite ../sep/003.pdf 003.pdf
$ pdfinfo 002.pdf >/dev/null
Syntax Error (69): Illegal character '}'
Syntax Error (70): Illegal character '}'
Syntax Error (79): Illegal character '>'
$ pdfinfo 003.pdf >/dev/null
Syntax Error (120): Illegal character '{'</pre>
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