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On Thursday 14 April 2011 22:30:01 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 14.04.2011 23:08, schrieb Liviu Andronic: |
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> > Dear all |
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> > What is your experience with corrupted PDF files? Do you know any tool |
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> > that can attempt to repair damaged PDF files? Does it make any sense |
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> > to edit a PDF file in hex mode? |
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> > I have a damaged PDF that cannot be opened with any of the about 10 |
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> > tools that I've just tried. |
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> Well, you could try app-text/qpdf from the benf overlay. It has an |
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> option to suppress recovery of damaged files so it looks like it at |
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> least tries to repair them per default. |
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> If you don't want to install layman and overlays, you can send me the |
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> file off-list and I take a look. |
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> One good thing about PDF is that its structure is stored uncompressed |
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> (AFAIK it only compresses text and binary data with zlib since version |
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> 1.2). This means that it might be at least partially recoverable. |
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You can also try pdfclean in case it reads it, from the package app-text/mupdf |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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