Dear Max, Thanks for the report! A fixed version should be available within some days.
On Friday, 09.10.2009, 10:33 -0400 Max wrote: > pdftk 1.41+dfsg-2+b1 having troubles uncompressing certain PDF files - for > example, > http://www.a-pdf.com/image-extractor/a-pdf-image-extractor-doc.pdf > > $ pdftk a-pdf-image-extractor-doc.pdf output result.pdf uncompress > Unhandled Java Exception: > com.lowagie.text.exceptions.UnsupportedPdfException: The filter > /CCITTFaxDecode is not supported. > at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.getStreamBytes(itext-2.1.7.jar.so) > at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.getStreamBytes(itext-2.1.7.jar.so) > > pdftk 1.41-3 from Debian/stable handles such files without any problems. > So, the bug was introduced somewhere in between of versions 1.41-3 and > 1.41+dfsg-2+b1. Here some technical description, why this bug had occurred: In pdftk <= 1.41, a old version of itext was included which had not DFSG-conform code. Because of this the old library had to be removed. Since version 1.41+dfsg-1, pdftk uses the libitext package. Unfortunately, the API of libitext had changed a lot and features like uncompression had to be solved in another way. Upstream of pdftk is inactive for years, so I had to reprogramme missing parts which generates easily new bugs... If you found more, please report them. Best wishes Johann Felix Soden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
