[tex-live] extractbb can not read the pdf file generated by mutool

[Shunsaku Hirata]

Hi,

I've looked the code and proposed patch, and found two problems.

First, mfgets() function can not be used to read a line anymore if you
are willing to allow arbitrary amount of white-space characters to
appear; it returns null-terminated strings while PDF spec. allows
null characters to appear anywhere within a line since they are
simply kind of white-space characters in PDF.

Next, garbage after valid data is not detected since it simply does
sscanf() and does not check the data unread.

The second problem is also in the original code. But, If you think
that arbitrary amount of white-space characters (including empty
lines) can be inserted between each pieces of xref data and xref
subsections, as oppose to current implementation, you need to do
more works to be consistent.

Thanks,

Shunsaku Hirata

2016-01-04 11:21 GMT+09:00 Shunsaku Hirata <shunsaku.hirata74 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> More permissive approach would make
> implementation simple and clear.
>
> I will try some other implementation later.
>
> Shunsaku Hirata
>
> 2016-01-04 7:40 GMT+09:00 Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>:
>> Hi Noriyuki, Karl,
>>
>>> Akira, wdyt?  Would you like to install it if it seems ok to you too?
>>
>>
>> S. Hirata, the author of the dvipdfmx, says that he will give a
>> patch by modifying Noriyuki's a little.
>> I'm waiting for the patch.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Akira
>>
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>