Open lrosenthol opened 1 year ago
Adobe PDF 1.5: p.78: "Note: It is illegal for a compressed object to consist of nothing but an indirect reference; for example, 3 0 R."
@lrosenthol to do some PDF archeology and discuss in next PDF TWG
Should make a 2nd example using something that is not a /Length key as some PDF sw don't process /Length keys.
This and other related/interlinked issues (#194 #199 #201 #208 ) are being discussed in the "Securing PDF" DG of ISO TC 171 SC 2 WG 8 and will be labelled as "Parked" here in GitHub until such time as a set of solutions can be proposed.
The Note in 7.3.10 states:
However, (a) this text is in dispute as whether it is indeed a correct interpretation of PDF syntax processing and (b) is of a more normative nature and should not be in a note (if we decide to leave it in).