[poppler] another problem with saving linearized files

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Jul 21 10:51:11 PDT 2011


A Dijous, 21 de juliol de 2011, vàreu escriure:
> 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.

Oh, i was testing the file rendering since it seems that we use the function you modified when creating the XRef for rendering 
too.

Well, i'll finish testing the rendering to make sure nothing is broken there and commit the patch to master.

Thanks and sorry again for the delay.

Albert

> 
> --
> regards
> Axel


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