Hello all,

we have here some pdfs where PoDoFo complains about a missing trailer.

First of all I thought we have invalid pdfs, but I checked the actual Pdf spec 
at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf  and I found the 
following in
section 7.5.8.1:

"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."

This tells that the trailer as a stand-alone dictionary in the finishing 
section of  the document
is not required anymore if you use a pure XRef stream style PDF. The trailer 
data in this case are
put into the Xref stream dictionary. So there are indeed cases where a PDF 
legitimately does not
have a trailer. Correct?

I checked our pdf and found the information in this dictionary.

Any ideas to get PoDoFo working with those types of Pdf?
Does PoDoFo support this already?

Best Regards
Sebastian

PS: Some of these pdfs contained a file trailer "old" style produced with an 
old version of Adobe Acrobat
in Pdf 1.2. We needed these documents in an actual Pdf version, therefore we 
saved it with the actual
Adobe Acrobat 9.2.0 and the trailer "old" style containing a trailer keyword 
followed by a trailer dictionary
disappeared! Acrobat shouldn't do this automatically...

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