[NTG-pdftex] image inclusion on samba shares :-(

[Hans Hagen]

Martin Schröder wrote:
> 2008/11/4 Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl>:
>> Martin Schröder wrote:
>>
>>> Can we fix this in pdftex.def or must pdftex (and luatex) be changed?
>> btw, in general i think that pdftex should not crash or quit on a missing
>> image or one that the xpdf library considers to be invalid; (better no image
>> than an invalid file).
> 
> Agreed. Btw: empty images (e.g. a pdf with 0 bytes) also cause troubles.
> 
> One problem is that the error handling in {pdf|lua}tex needs to be improved.

maybe the xpdf library should have some is_valid function?

Hans


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