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Tilman Hausherr updated PDFBOX-2530:
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Component/s: Utilities
> Improve PDFDebugger
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> Key: PDFBOX-2530
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2530
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Utilities
> Affects Versions: 1.8.8, 2.0.0
> Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
> Labels: gsoc2015
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> (This is an idea for [GSOC2015|https://www.google-melange.com/]. But if you
> want to submit some improvements to the code outside of GSOC2015 now, this is
> fine. We can always come up with other project ideas for GSOC2015)
> Our command line utility PDFDebugger (part of the command line pdfbox-app get
> it [here|https://pdfbox.apache.org/downloads.html], read description
> [here|https://pdfbox.apache.org/commandline/]) needs some improvements:
> - hex view
> - view of non printable characters
> - saving streams
> - binary copy & paste
> - show images that are streams
> - show PDIndexed gradient
> - show PDSeparation color
> - show PDDeviceN colors
> - edit fields
> - edit streams, while keeping or changing the compression filter
> - save altered PDF
> - color mark of PDF operators
> To see a product with a similar purpose that is better than PDFDebugger,
> watch [this video|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QcU9B4qMc].
> I'm not asking to implement a clone of that product (I don't use it, all I
> know is that video), but we really need something that makes PDF debugging
> easier. As an example of how the current PDFDebugger prevented me from
> finding a bug quickly, see PDFBOX-2401 and search for "PDFDebugger".
> Mentor: Tilman Hausherr (European timezone, languages: german, english,
> french)
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