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John Hewson edited comment on PDFBOX-1396 at 10/11/14 1:07 AM:
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> Currently parser gets that information after stream was read
No, it doesn't because PDFs are not sequential files, they are random-access.
Some parsers (such as the old PDFBox parser) try to read the file sequentially
- but this is their problem.
was (Author: jahewson):
No, it doesn't because PDFs are not sequential files, they are random-access.
> The Length of stream should be written directly, not by reference
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-1396
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1396
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Writing
> Affects Versions: 1.7.1
> Reporter: Juraj Lonc
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: PDFBOX-1396_COSStream.patch, PDFBOX-1396_COSWriter.patch
>
>
> The Length value of stream is written by reference:
> "2 0 obj
> <<
> /Length 8 0 R
> /Subtype /XML
> /Type /Metadata
> >>
> stream"
> but it is always better to tell parser the length of stream BEFORE the stream
> comes to parser. Currently parser gets that information after stream was
> read, which is sort of useless...
> Proper structure should look like this:
> "2 0 obj
> <<
> /Length 3576
> /Subtype /XML
> /Type /Metadata
> >>
> stream"
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