sebbacon/alaveteli — Issue #305: Some PDF documents cause pdftk 1.44 to loop forever
Author: robinhouston
Created: 2011-12-09 14:56:25+00:00
State: open

Some PDF documents, notably those created by HP Digital Sending Device, will cause pdftk 1.44 to go into an infinite loop trying to uncompress them. Examples of such documents on WDTK include:

* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/11212/response/32511/attach/5/CMS%20Grant%20Letter%20-%20redacted.pdf
* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/93515/response/233843/attach/2/C%20Moss%20Freedom%20of%20Information.pdf
* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/36190/response/90561/attach/3/HoL%20Visual%20Identity%20Guidelines.pdf
* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/15755/response/38355/attach/3/PO%20Boxes%20A%20to%20L%20th%20August%202009.pdf
* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/40464/response/107779/attach/2/FOI%20340742.pdf
* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/87534/response/234016/attach/12/HC9.pdf
* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/87534/response/234022/attach/6/HC14.pdf
* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/87534/response/234022/attach/8/HC16.pdf
* http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/87534/response/234022/attach/9/HC17.pdf