[poppler] annotations survive in saveas copy AFTER removing them

Jannick thirdedition at gmx.net
Wed Jul 19 21:44:09 UTC 2017


On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:38:05 +0200, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 
> El divendres, 14 de juliol de 2017, a les 17:35:54 CEST, Jannick va escriure:
> > Dear All,
> > my code snip below suggests that 'a.pdf' is copied to 'b.pdf' AFTER
> > removing all annotations of a.pdf. However, b.pdf still contains all
> > annotations seen in a.pdf.
> >
> > Am I missing something obvious here?
> 
> Is removeAnnot returning true or false?

It returns true. However, it seems that rather Page::removeAnnot should be called
which in turn needed a tiny patch due to a crash. Please see
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2017-July/012309.html
- proposed PATCH: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101795
 
> Cheers,
>   Albert

Thanks,
J.




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