Re: Tools to fix broken rar archives or pdfs?

[Stephen <dallan@rogers.com>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:21:16PM +0000 or thereabouts, Pigeon wrote:
> I have just downloaded the schematic for a Smart-UPS 700 in the form
> of a rar archive from some Russian site. Unfortunately, the archive is
> broken. It's apparently a rar version 2.9 archive, so I built the sid
> version (3.30 beta) of unrar on my woody system. This gets 99% of the
> way through extracting the archive and then reports "CRC failed",
> "Unexpected end of archive", "Total errors: 2". By using the -kb
> option I can prevent it deleting the partial .pdf that it's extracted,
> but ghostscript then reports "This file has a corrupted %%EOF marker,
> or garbage after the %%EOF". Viewing the file with less shows a %%EOF
> suspiciously close to the start of the file, and also some apparent
> confusion as to whether lines should be terminated with 0A or 0D.
> 
> Can anyone suggest any tools that might be able to repair the damaged
> archive or pdf, so that I can read at least some of it? Google hasn't
> been helpful, unfortunately.

Can't help with the archive - sorry, but I might if it's a PDF. Feel
free to send it on over.


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