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30.0.50; Can't read some PDF files any more

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, 60308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bugs <at> gnu.support
Subject: bug#60308: 30.0.50; Can't read some PDF files any more
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:44:16 +0100

On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 11:12:19 +0000 Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org> wrote:

>>
>> Attached (gzipped).  In the mean time I found the problem: that file
>> contains occurrences of "<" and that causes the error; after replacing them
>> with "&lt;" the PDF is displayed correctly.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> mutool version 1.21.0
>>
>
> Thanks.  So this looks like a mutool bug, which generates incorrect SGV files,
> right?

Yep.  I just converted the PDF to SVG with mutool 1.19.0 and the
resulting image displays correctly and there is no "<" in the file.

Steve Berman

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