Bug 25465

Summary: writing literal null's sometimes produces invalid pdf
Product: poppler Reporter: Axel Struebing <axel.struebing>
Component: generalAssignee: poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: patch for PDFDoc.cc

Description Axel Struebing 2009-12-05 12:37:42 UTC 
Created attachment 31769 [details] [review]
patch for PDFDoc.cc

Write support has a minor problem regarding literal 'null' in written pdf.

If somebody calls saveAs(outputName, writeForceRewrite) on a PDFdoc some invalid values could be written.

In an example pdf there were 
'/Dest[26 0 R/XYZ null 676 null]'

After only opening and saving using the writeForceRewrite flag the result looked like this:

'/Dest[26 0 R/XYZ null676 null]'

and okular and xpdf-based viewers issued warnings.

Unfortunately I am not allowed to post the originating pdf.

I have attached a patch vs. poppler-0.12.2, which solved the problem for my case.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2009-12-05 14:32:56 UTC 
Patch applied, thanks for the heads up.
Comment 2 Axel Struebing 2009-12-07 11:47:07 UTC 
that was fast work.

So this can be closed.

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