Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76695
xpdf fails to show anything from some file
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:56 EDT
Description of Problem: I got recently a pdf file for which xpdf shows only blank pages. 'pdfinfo' shows the following information about it: Tagged: no Pages: 6 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) File size: 139423 bytes Optimized: yes PDF version: 1.4 It is true that errors like that are generated Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Error (23193): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (26807): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (22004): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (5423): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (7891): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (9985): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (12089): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (14049): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (16013): Bad FCHECK in flate stream Error (18114): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (20180): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (105468): Bad FCHECK in flate stream Error (109548): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (116550): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (82374): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (105468): Bad FCHECK in flate stream Error (109548): Unknown compression method in flate stream Error (87911): Unknown compression method in flate stream Neverthless quite old 'acroread' complains but still shows all contents. This is the same with xpdf-1.01-8 from RH 8.0 and xpdf-1.00-3 as current in 7.3 I can provide that file if requested (at least if requested within a reasonable time).
could you please provide this test file please? or please try xpdf-2.01 in rawhide if it fixes this problem. please reopen this bug, if it's not fixed in xpdf-2.01 in the rawhide.
I had some exchange with Derek N., the author of xpdf, about the issue. The problem is that fonts in the file in question are damaged and xpdf parser, even in the current version, does not know how to handle the situation. This may change in the future. Acroread, even pretty old one, indeed does comes in that situation markedly better. If you still desire the file which exhibits the trouble drop me a line.