[XeTeX] Protecting pdfpages \includepdf against broken PDF

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Andreas Matthias wrote:

> J�r�me Et�v� wrote:
>
>   
>> Is there a way to protect pdfpages against such invalid files?
>>     
>
> No. This cannot be done by a macro package. And neither xetex
> nor luatex have a full-fledged pdf parser that would be necessary
> for this.
>
>   
>> Alternatively, is there a quick way to test a pdf file for correctness
>> before I include it in my latex document?
>>     
>
> Ghostscript is quite good in spotting errors in pdf files.


Sometimes I've had a problem like this (but I don't know why) when 
processing a pdf with pdfpages --- but AFAIK, it's only occurred when I 
use the xelatex engine to process. If I use pdflatex, it works fine.

The other work-around for the problem pdf file(s) is to re-generate them 
via pdftk:

 >> pdftk <YOURFILE>.pdf cat output <YOURNEWFILE>.pdf





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fr. michael gilmary, mma

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