Please ignore the text
"Yes, I produced the file as follows: "
after my name -- I had started to describe what I had done before I
decided to just do it again, step-by-step, to be sure.
Paul Gatewood wrote:
> Hi Leonard,
>
> Thanks for the very speedy feedback.
>
> I am using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, Version 9.1.1 on Windows XP.
>
> I am going to repeat my steps here, just to be sure.
> 1) Start Acrobat
> 2) Open original file (without trailer) (sorry I can not supply this --
> it has confidential information from a 3rd party)
> 3) Choose TouchUp Object tool (this PDF only has 2 images)
> 4) Right click each of the 2 images, and choose "delete"
> 5) Choose File -> Save As
> 6) Enter "leonard.pdf" for the file name (Save as type: Adobe PDF File)\
> 7) Exit
>
> The file I just produced is attached.
>
> Thanks,
> -Paul
>
> Yes, I produced the file as follows:
>
> Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>> Yes – without the trailer you can’t find anything else in the PDF.
>>
>> I find it VERY hard to believe that you saved that file from Adobe
>> Acrobat 9.x – it would have a trailer. Please provide the file that
>> you opened originally in Acrobat 9 and then any information about the
>> saving process. Did you just do File->Save? Save As? Other? Is this
>> 9.0, 9.1, 9.1.1 or 9.1.2? On what OS platform?
>>
>> Leonard
>>
>>
>> On 6/11/09 2:19 PM, "Paul Gatewood" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Is the trailer element always required in a PDF document?
>>
>> I have recently encountered documents without the trailer
>> (IOException
>> "trailer not found" when instantiating PdfReader).
>>
>> In the past, the "save as" feature of Acrobat produced a PDF with the
>> trailer.
>>
>> Now I am using Acrobat 9 and the "save as" does not add the
>> trailer (at
>> least to the files I am encountering at the moment).
>>
>> Looking at the PDF specification at
>> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf (I hope
>> this
>> is the right location), I see at the end of section 7.5.8.1 the
>> following:
>>
>> "The value following the startxref keyword shall be the
>> offset of
>> the cross-reference stream rather than the xrefkeyword. For files
>> that
>> use cross-reference streams entirely (that is, files that are not
>> hybrid-reference files; see 7.5.8.4, "Compatibility with Applications
>> That Do Not Support Compressed Reference Streams"), the keywords xref
>> and trailer shall no longer be used. Therefore, with the exception of
>> the startxref address %%EOFsegment and comments, a file may be
>> entirely
>> a sequence of objects."
>>
>> I am in no way a PDF expert, so I don't know whether this is
>> apropos to
>> this situation or not, but I am trying to do homework before
>> asking for
>> help :-)
>>
>> I can not supply the PDF I received, due to its confidential content.
>> I have, however, edited it with Acrobat 9 to remove all the content I
>> could see, then saved it ("save as") to a file called
>> test-saved-from-acrobat-9.pdf, which I am attaching.
>>
>> So, does anyone know more about this, i.e. whether in this
>> situation it
>> really is legitimate that the trailer is omitted?
>>
>> And if so, is there a way to deal with this in iText? I am currently
>> using iText 2.1.4.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Leonard Rosenthol
>> PDF Standards Architect
>> Adobe Systems Incorporated
>>
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