[poppler] another problem with saving linearized files

[Axel Strübing]

Hi Hib,

> Hi Albert,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Axel Strübing
> 
> <axel.struebing at freenet.de> wrote:
> > Hi Albert,
> > 
> > nice to hear that you have got a machine for tests ...
> > 
> >> Hmmm, i started testing and i can open correctly the three files
> >> attached in this mail *without* your patch when using poppler trunk,
> >> are you sure your patch is still needed?
> > 
> > I know. I made the patch for the perl module (CAM::PDF) to be able to
> > open the files. Poppler itself is more robust in parsing.
> > I had to open the files with perl and CAM::PDF and was not able to do so.
> 
> To clarify this (Axel, please correct me if I am worng):
> 
> To problem that Alex' patch solves is that when you write a pdf
> document using poppler, it does not always open with other pdf parsers
> (e.g. CAM::PDF), because the startxref that poppler computes and
> writes is not correct, as it does not ignore whitespace.
> 
> Hib

you are perfectly right. Thanks for the clarification.

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regards
Axel