[pdftex] Fixing Encoding object problems [was: AR 5 not working with pdftex?]

[Hans Hagen]

At 06:03 PM 6/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Hans,
>
>>
>> i wonder, if pdftex has a dangling pointer, we could add the vector at the
>> end of the file with that number as object and cross our fingers that
>> acrobat would 'reconstruct' the file, but i must admit that i never saw
>> acrobat being able to really correct / reconstruct a corrupted file.
>>
>
>I see that the object that is supposed to have the encoding vector is marked
>as free in the xref table. So, one could add the encoding object to the end
>of the PDF file (before the xref table), and fix the both the xref table and
>startxref value, simply because even though Acrobat will "fix" the PDF file,
>when it is saved, one gets all of the extra stuff Acrbat likes to insert.

so, it seems that there is a way to fix the files

>> Also, say that we should copy the font descriptor, add an encoding object
>> [both ascii], add an additional ref table, then we would have an updated
>> file [second obj ref number being 1 instead of 0] and this would be valid.
>> Of course the problem would be to identify the correct vector. A bunch of
>> such files could then be optimized by acrobat.
>>
>
>The Font object already has "/Encoding # 0 R" in it, it is just that # is
>marked as free in the xref table.  So we don't have to add an additional
>xref table and mark the new objects as having generation 1 (instead of 0).
 
i played a bit with the encoding vectors, and wonder how to make a valid
one, i also wonder what the funny # symbols in some font vectors mean, but
it seems to be a valid char for a /n#me. 

Hans 
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