Re: Looking for a Debugger that can show which incremental save an object belongs to

2023-10-07 Thread Andreas Lehmkühler
Am 07.10.23 um 06:43 schrieb John Lussmyer: I doubt there is a way. It's most likely that the signing code makes a MD5 checksum (or similar) of the file when it is signed. If the file is changed, checking the signing will re-calculate the checksum and find that it is different.  There isn't a

Re: Looking for a Debugger that can show which incremental save an object belongs to

2023-10-06 Thread Marc Kaufman
It's a lot more subtle than that. I wrote the MDP code for Adobe Acrobat 9 (June 2008). Certainly there are the obvious changes: something in a content stream changed, but then there are less obvious changes (appearance string changes for annotations that are locked). One which I just ran into

Re: Looking for a Debugger that can show which incremental save an object belongs to

2023-10-06 Thread John Lussmyer
I doubt there is a way. It's most likely that the signing code makes a MD5 checksum (or similar) of the file when it is signed. If the file is changed, checking the signing will re-calculate the checksum and find that it is different.  There isn't any info on what changed, just that SOMETHING c

Re: Looking for a Debugger that can show which incremental save an object belongs to

2023-10-06 Thread Tilman Hausherr
On 06.10.2023 19:50, Marc Kaufman wrote: I find myself debugging PDF files where Acrobat claims "Document has been altered or corrupted since it was signed." I would dearly love to see which objects belong to the last xref (color code is OK). Has anyone added that feature to PDF Debugger, or kn