I see a huge memory-leak in Xpdf 1.00 - Red Hat Linux 7.3 Xpdf 2.01 - Red Hat Linux 9 upon reading the following document: http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/about/linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.pdf With each page, memory consumption increases around 10-30 MiB. Bug-report sent to author on Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:00:28 +0200. No reaction yet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.01-8 and 1.00-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. xpdf linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.pdf 2. press "page down" 3. repeat step 2 till at least page 5 4. observe memory usage
it seems that the pdf file is broken. xpdf linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.pdf shows errors: Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary Error: Couldn't read xref table Do you have a correct pdf file for testing?
I don't get such errors, assuming the file is not damaged. It is a fairly recent download. Acrobat Reader displays it without similar symptoms. pdf2ps converts it without trouble. $ md5sum linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.pdf 32e77bf40d1f73a73019e3ed43baf3a8 linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.pdf $ pdfinfo linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.pdf Title: linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.sxd Author: conz Creator: StarOffice 6.0 Producer: AFPL Ghostscript 7.03 CreationDate: Mon Apr 29 10:56:40 2002 Tagged: no Pages: 17 Encrypted: no Page size: 595 x 842 pts (A4) File size: 1904623 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.2
The autor is aware this bug and he said to me that he is working on a new rasterizer, and a new font system, so it will be fixed in next upstream.