From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QAUeb-0005hI-Ev for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:04:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E63C21C059; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABFA1C059 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so2381909wwj.10 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:03:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=eS8uYzQQk93bali9nw2OozBwuYCDrTIgCZYc8Fjob38=; b=iIDpNtr1Me+vMUwXxoAR8i7L7ESX3+h2MjY04CLHHoGpto5VeIHTYt8wtiEPhNVG6o 9rmxUmgWZuqleuRD1R0xzL+PAunjMROJcpr21pl3FVNNOeU8FLgYITmRpPdWdNeHaG1n 26Wd6WaPuxWvuT/KlqGyP4CR8qK9expzO4fQM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Kb1UawR2LMQT44UppEzN4qZh0zMCuKwi8MgQNYdCJYHUkxnAqFapfhjoHUj98DbiZm cAjaxfuHnHMnd5khbRdqwGs2CITdiAC4ZQfg66qeaa/XxienAMV8oaGtv2VkpRSUPDQU WNyUL3ucEJMnFCBr8jVDdbVu+ejJKTbcgpozg= Received: by 10.227.140.159 with SMTP id i31mr1308142wbu.166.1302818587891; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:03:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bs4sm1251005wbb.35.2011.04.14.15.03.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:03:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] repair damaged pdf? Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:03:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DA76759.7050606@binarywings.net> In-Reply-To: <4DA76759.7050606@binarywings.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2816531.caZKEuYFB7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104142303.34387.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d7f2088b8a936092c73d21d8a2028e10 --nextPart2816531.caZKEuYFB7 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 14 April 2011 22:30:01 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 14.04.2011 23:08, schrieb Liviu Andronic: > > Dear all > > What is your experience with corrupted PDF files? Do you know any tool > > that can attempt to repair damaged PDF files? Does it make any sense > > to edit a PDF file in hex mode? > >=20 > > I have a damaged PDF that cannot be opened with any of the about 10 > > tools that I've just tried. > Well, you could try app-text/qpdf from the benf overlay. It has an > option to suppress recovery of damaged files so it looks like it at > least tries to repair them per default. >=20 > If you don't want to install layman and overlays, you can send me the > file off-list and I take a look. >=20 > One good thing about PDF is that its structure is stored uncompressed > (AFAIK it only compresses text and binary data with zlib since version > 1.2). This means that it might be at least partially recoverable. You can also try pdfclean in case it reads it, from the package app-text/mu= pdf =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2816531.caZKEuYFB7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk2nbzYACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaJ/ACfUyNswRmT28s1hQc+Mu2MqTbz 060AoJW7zPkv2HSyKO7/Um12PXz8L054 =G4/a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2816531.caZKEuYFB7--