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@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ 2018-02-17 Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> + * Major enhancements to handling of type errors within the qpdf + library. This fix is intended to eliminate those annoying cases + where qpdf would exit with a message like "operation for + dictionary object attemped on object of wrong type" without + providing any context. Now qpdf keeps enough context to be able to + issue a proper warning and to handle such conditions in a sensible + way. This should greatly increase the number of bad files that + qpdf can recover, and it should make it much easier to figure out + what's broken when a file contains errors. + * Error message fix: replace "file position" with "offset" in error messages that report lexical or parsing errors. Sometimes it's an offset in an object stream or a content stream rather than |