Re: [Matplotlib-users] bug in PDFs

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Droettboom
The description of 'n' vs 'f' below doesn't seem to align with what the spec says: that 'n' is for in-use objects and 'f' is for free objects. However, the spec does say: "The first entry in the table (object number 0) is always free and has a generation number of 65,535; it is the head of the

[Matplotlib-users] bug in PDFs

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Hearne
All: I am using PDF files generated from matplotlib, and a PDF parser from ReportLab, Inc. Their tool encountered a bug in the PDF specification. The company's email to me follows: ...matplotlib is violating the PDF specification. There is a structure near the end of the file shown belo