[pdftex] Incorrect pdf produced from a single correct pdf file

[George N. White III]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Smg Mailinglist Archive wrote:
>
>> I have a problem using pdftex to deal with a specific pdf file,
>> http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/denis.delgay-troise/RMI/Tds/RMItd24.pdf.
>
> the PDF in the attachment of your e-mail contains in object no. 1 a
> broken LZW stream (but the RMItd24.pdf is ok.). This can't be forced
> (easily) by macro programming, so it could be some bug in the old pdftex
> version or its xpdf library used for creating the PDF file. My current
> pdftex-1.50.0-alpha here doesn't produce a corrupted PDF.

>From TeX Live 2008 on MacOSX: pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
works too.


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia