Oh... Ok, in this case let me just state that I'm happy to now have the ISO PDF specification which can be considered normative... ;*)
Regards, Michael. BTW, >The end of file is more specified in this case, but the beginning is not >(IIRC). the beginning also has been specified in quite some detail, "The first line of a PDF file is a header identifying the version of the PDF specification to which the file conforms, [...] %PDF-1.7 [...] %PDF-1.0 ... %PDF-1.6" followed up by an implementation note stating that "Acrobat viewers require only that the header appear somewhere within the first 1024 bytes of the file." This has been in there at least since 1.4... -----Original Message----- From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 4:06 AM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PJL commands in pdf files: OK? The clarification is that the PDF References aren't "normative" in nature - they don't (usually) make final, definitive statements - just sort of general ones. The end of file is more specified in this case, but the beginning is not (IIRC). Leonard On Dec 14, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Michael Klink wrote: > Leonard, > > when looking at the PDF 1.7 spec, I find descriptions that to me look > very much like those in the ISO specifications. > > Section 3.4.4 states: > > "The last line of the file contains only the end-of-file marker, % > %EOF. (See implementation note 18 in Appendix H.)" > > The referenced implementation note states > > "Acrobat viewers require only that the %%EOF marker appear somewhere > within the last 1024 bytes of the file." > > To me this looks very much like the ISO specification in combination > with the new implementation notes. This eventually would mean, that > according to the Adobe PDF 1.7 specification, too, rubbish is not > allowed, merely tolerated by Adobe viewers. As far as I remember > former Adobe PDF specification contained wordings here to the same > effect... > > Or had there been some clarification stating something different? > > Regards, Michael. -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
