Re: PDF problem - Help needed

Michael Sweet <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:26:16 -0400
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.printing-architecture
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Uddhav,

> On Sep 13, 2025, at 10:05=E2=80=AFAM, UDDHAV PHATAK 22BCE10731 =
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> Question:
> What=E2=80=99s the best way to inspect page content streams to verify =
what=E2=80=99s
> actually inside them? For example, I want to check whether /Fxo1 Do
> ended up in the page content. Right now the streams are
> Flate-compressed, so I=E2=80=99m looking for a tool/command that will =
let me
> view the decompressed content directly.

The "testpdfio" program can be used for this.  List the objects and =
dictionaries/values:

    testpdfio --verbose FILENAME

Uncompress the stream for an object to stdout:

    testpdfio FILENAME OBJECT-NUMBER

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Michael Sweet