Hi, Holger Levsen: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:29:43AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> Reading the upstream bug report, there seem to be no solution in sight >> any time soon. Perhaps it would be better if mat simply reported a >> failure and refused to process the input if it find embedded parts it >> can't strip? It would be better than pretending to succeed.
> I agree. Same here :) I've recently recommended upstream to do so, and Julien essentially agrees. He might try to go with the "big hammer" approach instead: just render each page on a bitmap and turn that into a crappy but safe PDF file. This might not take substantially more time than going through the process of deprecating PDF support entirely. I'm glad that you folks are tracking this. Thanks! Cheers, -- intrigeri
