Bug 65754

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; U)

Description of problem:
When opening this pdf in versions of Acrobat later than 5.0 the following errors appear on the blank pages:
"There was an error processing a page".
"The page contents object has the wrong type".
The pdf opens correctly and without any error messages in version 4.xx of Acrobat.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/pdf/rhl-ig-x86-en-73.pdf under Windows 2000 using Adobe Acrobat version 5.05.
2. Page down until you hit a blank page.
3. A dialog box appears with the above error messages.
	

Actual Results:  Click OK and then you can continue without further complaints until the next blank page is hit. Cannot print though, due to this problem.

Expected Results:  Blank page should not have produced any errors.

Additional info:

I found the following useful information on:
http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/bug-gs/2001-July/000535.html


Suggested fix, if any:
Acrobat Reader 5.0 apparently doesn't like the
"/Contents []" that is
generated for the blank page. One possible fix would
be to not
generate any "/Contents" for a blank page.

I already submitted a question to Adobe's User Forums
asking if this
problem was a bug in Acrobat Reader 5.0. Here is the
reply:

    No, I think the bug is in the PDF file. Acrobat 5
has stricter error
    checking.


    A blank page should have one of the following:


    - no /Contents key
    - Contents key containing an empty stream
    - Contents key containing an array containing an
empty stream


    The Specification is not explicit about
disallowing a zero length
    array, but it does say it must be an array of
streams. An empty
    array has no particular type, so is arguably NOT
an array of
    streams.