----- Original Message -----
From: "robert engels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Post all your questions about iText here"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 6:18 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] PRTokenizer too restrictive
> line 199 of PRTokenizer
>
> int idx = str.indexOf("%PDF-1.");
>
> is unnecessarily restrictive. We have encountered otherwise valid
> PDFs (that Adobe Reader is able to open).
>
Valid, no, broken. Just because Acrobat can open them doesn't make them
valid. The "validity" also changes according to the Acrobat version you use
to open the file.
> The line can be changed to
>
> int idx = str.indexOf("%PDF-");
>
> with no adverse affects.
>
Why not? iText has already a lot of hacks to open broken files.
> We have found some PDF generation software that uses a %PDF-0.0
I would like to know what crappy software does that. Don't they read the
specifications?
Paulo
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