[poppler] Installing pdf-fullrewrite by default?

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Oct 9 15:55:18 PDT 2013


El Dimecres, 9 d'octubre de 2013, a les 21:54:20, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger va 
escriure:
> 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?

Sure.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel



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