Description of problem:

Paycheck PDFs generated by ADP's web portal are not able to be printed with cups due to the following error in pdftopdf which uses libqpdf:

WARNING: document.pdf (object 3 0, file position 22059): stream keyword not
followed by proper line terminator
WARNING: document.pdf (object 11 0, file position 20260): stream keyword not
followed by proper line terminator
WARNING: document.pdf (object 11 0, file position 20260): attempting to
recover stream length
ERROR: Exception: document.pdf (object 11 0, file position 20260): unable to
recover stream data

The PDFs are not compliant, but ghostscript is able to clean it up so that it can be printed with:

gs -sOutputFile=output.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH input.pdf

which complains:

   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.
   **** Warning: stream operator isn't terminated by valid EOL.

   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
   **** The file was produced by:
   **** >>>> PDFOUT v3.8v by Xenos, inc. <<<<
   **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
   **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
   **** specification.

So, while this is clearly an issue with ADP and the PDFOUT/Xenos software, it would be great if qpdf/pdftopdf could be made more robust.

Unfortunately, since these are paycheck information, I'm not sure I can find a sample that I can attach.

The pdf has "stream" followed by a space and then a new-line - from od:

0030440   >  sp   s   t   r   e   a   m  sp  nl   q  sp   1   9   0   .
           203e    7473    6572    6d61    0a20    2071    3931    2e30

From ghostscript-9.20/Resource/Init/pdf_base.ps:

% PDF files are inconsistent about what may fall between the 'stream' keyword
% and the actual stream data, and it appears that no one algorithm can
% detect this reliably.  We used to try to guess whether the file included
% extraneous \r and/or \n characters, but we no longer attempt to do so,
% especially since the PDF 1.2 specification states flatly that the only
% legal terminators following the 'stream' keyword are \n or \r\n, both of
% which are properly skipped and discarded by the token operator.
% Unfortunately, this doesn't account for other whitespace characters that
% may have preceded the EOL, such as spaces or tabs. Thus we back up one
% character and scan until we find the \n terminator.

So I believe that qpdf should do the same thing and just keep scanning until the \n terminator is found.

Upstream issue: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/104

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.0.1-3.el7