[poppler] Spec question: Incremental updates and mixing XRef tables and streams

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 24 d'abril de 2012, a les 23:01:17, Fabio D'Urso va escriure:
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 01:54:27 AM Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> > On 4/23/12 11:37 PM, "Fabio D'Urso" <fabiodurso at hotmail.it> wrote:
> > >According to my tests, it seems to me that it's not possible to
> > >incrementally-
> > >update a document indexed by a XRef stream by appending a XRef table and
> > >making /Prev point to the previous XRef stream (which is what poppler
> > >currently does).
> > 
> > As they say in Ghostbusters - "Don't cross the streams"!
> > 
> > You are correct, you can't do that.  If the original file uses Xref
> > streams, you need to append the same way.
> > 
> > Leonard
> 
> Many thanks :)
> 
> These are the patches and a semi-automated qt4 program to test them.
> 
> In patch 0002, I feel that writeStreamToBuffer should share code with
> writeTableToFile. But I can't think of a non-ugly way to do this (callbacks
> or arguments used alternatively both seem ugly to me).
> 
> The patches fix both bug38761 and bug49080. However bug49080's document has
> form problems when opened in acroread. Text field contents is only shown
> when user clicks on it. Maybe it's like bug44506 (I haven't spent much time
> on it).

Why did you change the "streamwithoutfilename.pdf" thing?

Albert

> 
> Fabio