Changeset 723

Timestamp:

01/30/06 08:30:09 (3 years ago)

Author:

mfenniak

Message:

Add auto-repair for finding xref table at bad location (ReportLab? example file)

Files:

• pypdf/trunk/pyPdf/pdf.py (modified) (3 diffs)

pypdf/trunk/pyPdf/pdf.py

@@ -313 +313 @@
-    def read(self, stream):
-        # start at the end:
-2
+1
-        line = ''
-        while not line:
@@ -368 +368 @@
-                else:
-                    break
-se
+if x.isdigit()
-                # PDF 1.5+ Cross-Reference Stream
-                stream.seek(-1, 1)
@@ -417 +417 @@
-                else:
-                    break
+            else:
+                # bad xref character at startxref.  Let's see if we can find
+                # the xref table nearby, as we've observed this error with an
+                # off-by-one before.
+                stream.seek(-11, 1)
+                tmp = stream.read(20)
+                xref_loc = tmp.find("xref")
+                if xref_loc != -1:
+                    startxref -= (10 - xref_loc)
+                    continue
+                else:
+                    # no xref table found at specified location
+                    assert False
+                    break
-
-    def readNextEndLine(self, stream):