Having qpdf able to treat strings as names would be a pretty small
enhancement and would probably improve its ability to handle a whole
category of broken files. I'll try to work this in for the next update.
Thanks for providing this detailed summary of the problem. Very helpful.
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I have the same error from a file (that I can't share ) and this one has
/Pages element. I compared against the sample from this bug using a tool
that can read the internals.
I tried --check but it does not give me the details. Is there a way for
me to find out what element is the problem in my
In the meantime, I was able to debug and found the issue : basically
there is key 'Type' somewhere in the treee but the key is not a 'name'
as expected but a string.
I browsed a bit the spec (PDF) and it does seem to suggest Type should
always be a name. However, other tools seem to not care
Does your problem happen with 5.1.2-3?
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Synced 5.1.2-3 to Vivid.
Jay, thanks for the fix.
** Changed in: qpdf (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
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Sorry for the long delay. I have uploaded 5.1.2-3 to experimental.
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Jay, do it this way, syncing from Experimental is no problem for us.
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Status: New = Triaged
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That may work, thanks ;)
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It is possible to make a 5.1.2-3 version with this fix?
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Is it possible to make a 5.1.2-3 version with this fix?
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Debian is in freeze, but I could upload to experimental and ubuntu could
sync from there if that works.
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The problem is that the root object of the pages tree does not have a
/Type key in its dictionary. The PDF spec says that /Type is required
and must be /Pages for the root.
qpdf could and should handle this particular type of damage or could at
least give a better error message for it, but that's
Before I commit this for real, I need to create a test case, but this
seems to be a correct fix.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qpdf/+bug/1397413/+attachment/4272366/+files/page.diff
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Jay, can you have a look into this? Looks like an upstream bug in QPDF.
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