[poppler] Installing pdf-fullrewrite by default?

Josh Richardson jric at chegg.com
Wed Oct 9 13:16:05 PDT 2013


+1 for that!

On 10/9/13 12:54 PM, "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger"
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

>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
>-- 
>http://www.hailfinger.org/
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