2007/8/25, Albert Astals Cid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > *** beign more lax about ending %%EOF *** > Lately there seem to be some pdf around that do not end with %%EOF. That sucks > as they break the check i introduced for %%EOF beign present and are not REAL > pdf. > This check is not really needed for "finished" files, but on kpdf/okular we > have that handy "Check for file changes" that reloads the document once the > file has changed (useful for latex people), the problem with that is that you > know it changed, but not that it will not change anymore, so we often ended > up reloading incomplete files that randomly crashed poppler. > So i introduced the %%EOF check to avoid that. > But it seems that is hurting us now, so we can remove the %%EOF check and try > to improve poppler not to crash on incomplete documents or leave it that way > and keep repeating our users that if it does not have an %%EOF it's not a PDF > and that they should bug the producer not the consumer of the pdf file.
Will that hurt the pdftex -> kpdf/okular interaction? Best Martin _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
