[poppler] Installing pdf-fullrewrite by default?

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Wed Oct 9 12:54:20 PDT 2013


Hi,

I'm using pdf_fullrewrite as a robust and reliable PDF sanitizer for
defective/corrupt PDFs. It can handle quite a few PDFs where pdftk and
qpdf crash/abort.

Over the last few days I've been hacking on pdf_fullrewrite to report
the exact differences between the old and the rewritten PDF and the
results have been interesting. Quite a lot of differences happen for
corrupt input (the data is sanitized/corrected as expected), but it also
seems that Flate-encoded non-stream data is decoded upon rewrite whereas
Flate-encoded stream data stays Flate-encoded. Would patches to
implement an additional parameter decoding everything upon rewrite
(--decompress) be accepted?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/


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