What is the preferred way to retrieve an indirect object from an object stream? Is it possible that I have found a bug? This is really important for me.
Nedim On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 14:09 +0100, Nedim Srndic wrote: > I tried out Poppler 13 from Ubuntu 11.10 and I get the same results. As > far as I understand, if I look for an object in XRef using fetch(), and > that object is in an object stream, the XRef then uncompresses the > object and returns it to me, so that I don't even know that it was > compressed in the first place? If things don't work this way, what > approach should I take? > > That being said, I tried this approach with both Poppler 7 and 13 and > two PDF files with object streams. When I do an XRef->fetch() with > generation number 0 and object number of an object in the object stream, > I get a null object for all objects except the first one that is packed > in the object stream. The first one isn't extracted fully. Is this a > known issue? > > Nedim > > On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 11:12 -0700, Josh Richardson wrote: > > What kinds of objects are you interested in? I have a version of > > pdftohtml which I believe is not yet merged into the master repo that > > extracts images and fonts. > > > > --josh > > > > On 10/31/11 9:16 AM, "Nedim Srndic" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >Dear list, > > > > > >I am using the Poppler library (in the src/poppler folder, no bindings, > > >version 7 from the Ubuntu 10.10 repos) and would like to retrieve all > > >objects from a PDF file. Currently, I am running a loop on XRef and > > >getting all the non-null objects from it, but it doesn't seem to > > >retrieve objects from object streams. What solution would you propose > > >for this problem? > > > > > >Thanks, > > >Nedim Srndic > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >poppler mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
