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Acrobat can read fantastically corrupt PDF files none of which are covered by the spec. The endless surprises induce a special kind of madness. Streams just s

Acrobat can read fantastically corrupt PDF files none of which are covered by the spec. The endless surprises induce a special kind of madness. Streams just suddenly end? That’s ok. Totally corrupt xref tables? Ok. Incorrect image headers? Ok. Unrecognisably mangled Type1 font formats? Fine!

belval 6y ago
That's great because it creates client expectations regarding what my PDF application should support. Implementing the spec is not good enough, you have to do what PDFium or Adobe do.
- fgonzag 6y ago
  On the other hand, if they never supported those broken PDFs to begin with, we wouldn't have them in the wild and wouldn't have to deal with them.
  - folmar 6y ago
    20 years ago I were more surprised when I got a PDF with correct xref table than with broken one.