GNU bug report logs - #60308
30.0.50; Can't read some PDF files any more

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Message #44 received at 60308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: gregory <at> heytings.org, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, 60308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 bugs <at> gnu.support
Subject: Re: bug#60308: 30.0.50; Can't read some PDF files any more
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 14:04:11 +0200

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  60308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   yantar92 <at> posteo.net,  bugs <at> gnu.support
> 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.

xmllint clearly says the file is invalid, due to those "<" characters.

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