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? > > > > 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. > > If you don't want to install layman and overlays, you can send me the > file off-list and I take a look. > > 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/mupdf -- Regards, Mick
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