Hello, Reading a PDF File based on COS Objects will teach you *a lot* about PDF Internals. There are some tools out there to do that or you can write your own.... I used to have a plug-in to do that but I've mislaid the source and it no longer works with the later versions of Acrobat :-(
Regards, Andrew On 14/03/2013 12:04, mkl wrote: > adriano, > > adriano wrote >> I think we are starting to converge to a common understanding of my point! >> :) > Well, you want to analyze all data in a PDF file, be it reachable from the > root or not. This can be a valid requirement, e.g. for repairing files with > broken cross references or for analyzing the history of individual > documents. I don't understand, though, the need for this analysis merely to > find 'suspicious' objects (especially as your examples for such suspicious > object in general are not suspicious at all) without further motivation. > > That been said, it of course is possible to try to read a PDF with no > consideration given to the cross references. As far as I know PDFBox has a > mode for reading PDFs like this (the other mode --- using the coss > references --- seems to be the more endorsed one nowerdays, though); it has > to choose if it finds multiple objects with the same object and generation > number. Thus, you might want to take that code as a start and instead of > chosing implement some comparison. > > Regards, Michael > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Duplicate-indirect-objects-tp4657759p4657820.html > Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. > Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a > reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: > http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
