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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000380 | file | General | public | 2022-09-01 14:23 | 2024-05-11 06:29 |
| Reporter | jmoyano | Assigned To | christos | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | crash | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 5.41 | ||||
| Summary | 0000380: PDF file incorrectly reported as "data" | ||||
| Description | PDF files are incorrectly reported as "data" if the file has leading spaces in the "%PDF-" string %PDF-1.4 <-- Notice the spaces at the beginning %���� 3 0 obj <</Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 595.280 841.890] /TrimBox [0.000 0.000 595.280 841.890] /Resources 2 0 R... | ||||
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While it is easy to fix the magic recognition to ignore spaces, according to the spec https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/standards/pdfstandards/pdf/PDF32000_2008.pdf this is not a pdf file. |
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I have several PDF files which even have a Windows Path in front of the `%PDF` header. They are all correctly recognised and displayed as PDF by macOS, but `file` just shows them as "data". Martins-Air:~ > file Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2\ -\ 2015/* Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/2015-12-23-1957244037_04-EVN.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3, 1 pages Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/2015-12-23-1957244037_04-RG.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3, 3 pages Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/PDF_Rechnung_M211150117336384_01-2015.pdf: data Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/PDF_Rechnung_M211150119470802_02-2015.pdf: data Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/PDF_Rechnung_M211150121632155_03-2015.pdf: data Martins-Air:~ > head -1 Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2\ -\ 2015/* ==> Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/2015-12-23-1957244037_04-EVN.pdf <== %PDF-1.3 ==> Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/2015-12-23-1957244037_04-RG.pdf <== %PDF-1.3 ==> Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/PDF_Rechnung_M211150117336384_01-2015.pdf <== c:\tempdarch\228511514\X5002905.pdf%PDF-1.5 ==> Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/PDF_Rechnung_M211150119470802_02-2015.pdf <== c:\tempdarch\228511514\X5003160.pdf%PDF-1.5 ==> Documents/Privat/Rechnungen/O2 - 2015/PDF_Rechnung_M211150121632155_03-2015.pdf <== c:\tempdarch\228511514\X12002827.pdf%PDF-1.5 |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2022-09-01 14:23 | jmoyano | New Issue | |
| 2022-09-01 14:23 | jmoyano | File Added: boleta (5).pdf | |
| 2022-09-01 16:02 | christos | Assigned To | => christos |
| 2022-09-01 16:02 | christos | Status | new => assigned |
| 2022-09-01 16:03 | christos | Status | assigned => feedback |
| 2022-09-01 16:03 | christos | Note Added: 0003813 | |
| 2024-05-11 06:29 | tali | Note Added: 0004038 |
