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ClassCastException in FlateFilter

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    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
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      [imported from SourceForge]
      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=78314&atid=552832&aid=1297272
      Originally submitted by yves_bussard on 2005-09-20 22:35.

      Hi Ben,

      There is another Bug in FlateFilter.decode(). Let's
      have a look at the following stream in the attached
      document:

      174 0 obj
      <<
      /Length 94
      /LayerCreator /Neevia
      /LayerID <c5593367f4b69653b3dd4f771209026a>
      /LayerXML 177 0 R
      /Filter [ /FlateDecode ]
      /DecodeParms [ null ]
      >>
      stream
      <the 94 bytes of the stream>
      endstream
      endobj

      As described in the PDF Reference this document uses
      the possibility to define an array of filters instead
      of just one filter(name). In the above case the array
      contains only one element (filter). In this case it
      should also define an array of dictionaries (one for
      each filter) which it does.

      Now the decode() method is passed a parametere options
      which imho should be the dictionary with the parameters
      for this filter instance. Instead the options parameter
      actually is the stream itself (COSStream is derived
      from COSDictionary) which contains the filter
      parameters in DecodeParms. Now if you have a COSArray
      of COSDictionaries in the entry DecodeParms then you
      have no way of knowing which set (index) of parameters
      you should use. I think that the parameter options
      should contain the dictionary with the parameters
      itself (not the stream). This affects a few places
      calling the method.

      Also another bug is on line 78 in the same method:

      predictor = dict.getInt("Predictor");
      colors = dict.getInt("Colors");
      --> bitsPerPixel =
      options.getInt("BitsPerComponent");
      columns = dict.getInt("Columns");

      the parameter BitsPerComponent is stored at the same
      location as columns. Therefore it should be from the
      variable dict that the BitsPerComponent are retrieved.
      To me it looks as if originally the parameter options
      used to be the decode parameters and it has been
      changed later on (I don't know for which reason).

      cheers
      Yves

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