https://forums.adobe.com/ All Content in Adobe Community en Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:49:02 GMT Jive Engage 7.0.0.1 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/) 2014-09-19T11:49:02Z en https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1579212 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:e0602859-9013-418d-8e91-2fe2103c27a0] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Adobe Reader will either give Error 14, or just crash out and quit if it comes across a PDF file with duplicate pages, for example:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>/Kids [9 0 R 9 0 R]</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>By my reading of the standard, there is no explicit prohibition of this. Other PDF readers work ok. Is this an Adobe Reader bug, or have I misunderstood the standard?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>(Motivation: I'm writing a PDF squeezer which coalesces groups of identical objects into one. This reduces the size of the ISO3200 PDF specification itself by about 20% -- lots of PDF producers seem to create duplicate objects. But if Adobe Reader crashes in this case, where else might it or other readers crash when there is unexpected aliasing of objects?)</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:e0602859-9013-418d-8e91-2fe2103c27a0] --><img src='/beacon?t=1415903210289' /> Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:49:02 GMT forums_noreply@adobe.com https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1579212 2014-09-19T11:49:02Z 1 month 3 weeks ago 5 0