[poppler] another problem with saving linearized files

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Jul 21 14:16:51 PDT 2011


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

It's in.

Albert

> 
> Thanks and sorry again for the delay.
> 
> Albert
> 
> > 
> > --
> > regards
> > Axel
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