Bug#1067196: qpdf: contrary to the documentation, fix-qdf aborts on removed objects

2024-04-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jay Berkenbilt dixit: >How's that? That explains it very well and not ambiguous to nōn-native speakers (I hope). Thanks, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜ Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)

Bug#1067196: qpdf: contrary to the documentation, fix-qdf aborts on removed objects

2024-04-28 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
(Sorry for the duplicate -- I inadvertently failed to cc the bug report on my private reply.) On Sun, Apr 14, 2024, at 1:50 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Jay Berkenbilt dixit: > > >As it happens, I am upstream. > > Oh, nice ☻ in that case, thanks for qpdf. > > >--- > >It is not generally

Bug#1067196: qpdf: contrary to the documentation, fix-qdf aborts on removed objects

2024-04-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jay Berkenbilt dixit: >As it happens, I am upstream. Oh, nice ☻ in that case, thanks for qpdf. >--- >It is not generally practical to remove objects from QDF files without >messing up object numbering, but if you remove all indirect references >to an object (without removing the object itself),

Bug#1067196: qpdf: contrary to the documentation, fix-qdf aborts on removed objects

2024-04-13 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Sorry for the top-post. As it happens, I am upstream. I have rewritten the pargraph as follows. I think this is clearer. What do you think? If you like it, I'll close this. My fix is here: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/pull/1187 --- It is not generally practical to remove objects from QDF files

Bug#1067196: qpdf: contrary to the documentation, fix-qdf aborts on removed objects

2024-04-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jay Berkenbilt dixit: >Can you tell me where in the docs it says what you're describing? >Here's a direct quote from the current qpdf documentation: > >It is not generally practical to remove objects from QDF files without >messing up object numbering, but if you remove all references to an

Bug#1067196: qpdf: contrary to the documentation, fix-qdf aborts on removed objects

2024-04-06 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Can you tell me where in the docs it says what you're describing? Here's a direct quote from the current qpdf documentation: It is not generally practical to remove objects from QDF files without messing up object numbering, but if you remove all references to an object, you can run qpdf on the

Bug#1067196: qpdf: contrary to the documentation, fix-qdf aborts on removed objects

2024-03-19 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: qpdf Version: 10.1.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de, n...@naturalnet.de The qpdf documentation states that it is possible to remove an object then run fix-qdf and it should renumber the remaining objects. In an exemplary PDF, I did this: - qpdf --qdf