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Re: Binary file detector got it wrong on REC_CSS1-19990111.pdf

From: <patrick_at_qint.de>
Date: 2003-08-26 12:23:16 CEST

Hi Tobias,
Quoting Tobias Ringstrom <tobias@ringstrom.mine.nu>:

> mark benedetto king wrote:
> > AFATG, the PDF 1.4 file specification strongly suggests that non-text
> =====
> What's that?
>
> > characters be used early in the file in order to prevent them from being
> > identified as text.
>
> I thought so too, but I looked it up, and what it does is to it suggests
> that non-text characters are used early in the file for PDFs that
> *contain binary data*. There can still be non-binary PDFs.

But changing the EOL of PDFs will invalidate the offsets in XREF table. So you
should tread PDFs as binaries, even if they do not contain any non ASCII
characters.

>
> /Tobias
>
>
Regards,
Patrick

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