From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: PDF viewer poll
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:21:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <299733e2-4884-5354-0c0a-1eef43c4d255@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D27C3F-77B0-4FDB-B338-16089D437068@elvenkind.com>
On 10/15/2019 10:12 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>
>> On 15 Oct 2019, at 06:42, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you all for you valuable insights so far!
>> I’ll compile them to a wiki page and also complete the list in my upcoming book.
>>
>>> Am 2019-10-14 um 11:17 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>:
>>>
>>> When developing pdf specific code (like last months) I do use acrobat reader and an older acrobat x (which keeps telling me that it wants to be updated but the update fails) ... both have their different issues. Acrobat X has some validation on board and one can introspect the file (and fonts) to some extend but in the end it's often still trial and error.
>>
>> Do you know any other tools for PDF debugging? Those few I know of cost four to five figures or were plugins to very old versions of Acrobat
>
> Most of my PDF debugging is done using 'mutool clean’ (especially with the -d switch) and textmate / diff.
qpdf also has something like that (with comments of where the objects
come from) and using both tools in parallel can normally reveal issues
there are catches: for instance some tools don't really use the xref
table but just run through the objects so finding issues in the xref
(and compressed object tables) is a bitch but luckily it seldom needed
Hans
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-13 10:43 Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-10-13 10:47 ` denis.maier
2019-10-13 14:50 ` Rudolf Bahr
2019-10-13 15:26 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-10-13 15:50 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2019-10-14 17:09 ` Greedwolf DSS
2019-10-13 16:49 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2019-10-13 18:02 ` kaddour kardio
2019-10-13 18:28 ` Hans Åberg
2019-10-14 7:58 ` Taco Hoekwater
2019-10-14 9:17 ` Hans Hagen
2019-10-15 4:42 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-10-15 6:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-10-19 10:21 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-10-19 10:51 ` Hans Hagen
2019-10-19 11:06 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-10-20 20:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-10-21 8:21 ` Hans Hagen
2019-10-15 8:11 ` Hans Hagen
2019-10-15 8:12 ` Taco Hoekwater
2019-10-15 8:21 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-10-15 8:25 ` luigi scarso
2019-10-16 8:02 ` luigi scarso
2019-10-14 16:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-10-15 15:40 ` Benct Philip Jonsson
2019-10-15 4:26 ` Alan Braslau
2019-10-15 4:58 ` Hamid,Idris
2019-10-19 19:27 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-10-15 5:00 ` Otared Kavian
2019-10-15 11:58 ` luigi scarso
2019-10-16 9:30 ` context
2019-10-13 18:21 Damien Thiriet
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