[pdftex] how to crash all (well, some) pdf viewers with pdflatex

Martin Schröder ms at artcom-gmbh.de
Tue Aug 10 17:25:51 CEST 2004


On 2004-07-26 23:52:47 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Acrobat does not like zero transformation matrices; things like 
> 
>  0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 cm

Which is of course perfectly valid pdf. :-)

> will therefore fail (the wrong operands are 0.0 & 0.0). As far as i know 
> this has been reported to adobe. 

And will be fixed when? :-{

Best regards
    Martin
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