Bug#709253: texlive-lang-english: symbols-a4.pdf and symbols-letter.pdf contain many PDF errors
reassign 709253 libpoppler19
retitle 709253 make unparseable glyph names a slient warning and not error
thanks
On Mi, 04 Sep 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2013-09-04 16:24:57 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > No, I still disagree. It is not a PDF syntax error. iT is a mistreatment
> > of poppler. Only because it cannot parse a charname does not mean that
> > it is invalid, I guess.
>
> I've searched with Google, and
>
> https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/597719/771190#target
>
> seems to confirm that this is not against the PDF spec. I suggest to
> reassign the bug to libpoppler19.
Done so.
> If this is really a PDF syntax error, I think that this should be
> explained in the poppler source (with a reference to the section
> of the PDF spec forbidding this).
I don't think that this is a PDF syntax error. Glyph names can have
arbitrary names, in principle.
> Otherwise, an error shouldn't be issued by default (informative output
> would be OK, but only in some form of debug mode).
Agreed.
Norbert
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