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

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous 07 Febrer 2008, Jeff Muizelaar va escriure:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:16:32PM +0100, 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.
>
> Maybe we should print a warning if it crosses the 127 limit in an effort
> to help authors know that they've done something discouraged.

Good idea, added to my local copy of the patch. Anything more?

Albert

>
> -Jeff
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