Bug 228808

Summary: Premature EOF in image causes bad JPEG stream in PDF
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: Alex Cherepanov <alex>
Component: PDF WriterAssignee: Jack Moffitt <jack>
Status: NOTIFIED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: jackie.rosen
Priority: P2    
Version: master   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Customer: Word Size: ---

Description Alex Cherepanov 2001-01-14 22:11:54 UTC
Originally reported by: alexcher@users.sourceforge.net
tiff2ps utility from libtiff distribution creates PS files that often have premature EOF in the last band of data. GS initializes JPEG compressor to the full band width (=height). When EOF is encountered GS updates the height in PDF obj but JPEG stream is already written.

GS should buffer the whole image and start compression only after the whole image is retrieved. This will also help to choose the encoding filter based on contents of the image as Distiller does.

The file with premature EOF follows. 

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/DeviceGray setcolorspace

<<
  /ImageType 1
  /Width 437
  /Height 64
  /ImageMatrix [ 1 0 0 -1 0 0 ]
  /BitsPerComponent 8
  /Decode [0 1]
  /DataSource currentfile /ASCII85Decode filter /LZWDecode filter
>> image

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Comment 1 Ray Johnston 2001-03-21 10:11:57 UTC
Comment originally by rayjj@users.sourceforge.net
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We acknowledge that this is a valid issue, but we do not have
resources available to address this at this time.

This problem report has been moved to doc/Issues.htm where it
may remain open for some time. Relevant comments are
captured there along with the ID# of this report.

By moving this issue to the widely distributed Ghostscript
documentation, we wish to make this issue well known and
solicit help in improving Ghostscript in this area.

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