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30.0.50; Can't read some PDF files any more

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Message #73 received at 60308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>,
 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: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 19:37:23 +0100

Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org> writes:

>>
>> Here a first patch that prevent producing SVG when mutool has a
>> version > 1.20.  Feel free to comment and fix.
>>
>
> I just tried, and most PDF files are processed without problems with
> mutool 1.21.

It happens when a document contains a '<' character so it can be rare
for someone.

> So I'm not sure we should install such a workaround in Emacs, for a
> bug that happens in some cases for some specific versions (1.20 and
> 1.21) of a specific external program.

You are right that it should be a temporary bug in mupdf.  But I was
more worry of random page not rendering as it was before with DocView.
-- 
Manuel Giraud

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