unknown PDF Root version: 1#2E5

[mtzanidakis]

Hello,
we have a pdf with a weird root version.

$ pdfcpu version
pdfcpu: v0.3.2 dev

$ pdfcpu info version_error.pdf
identifyRootVersion: unknown PDF Root version: 1#2E5
: 1#2E5

With something like that:

diff --git a/pkg/pdfcpu/version.go b/pkg/pdfcpu/version.go
index d666e4c..211ec9c 100644
--- a/pkg/pdfcpu/version.go
+++ b/pkg/pdfcpu/version.go
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ func PDFVersion(versionStr string) (Version, error) {
                return V13, nil
        case "1.4":
                return V14, nil
-       case "1.5":
+       case "1.5", "1#2E5":
                return V15, nil
        case "1.6":
                return V16, nil

it works.

The pdf in question

Thanks in advance

[hhrutter]

Thanks for reporting this!

[hhrutter]

Fixed with v0.3.3

[thorsted]

Curious if this issue was fixed to ignore the Catalog version entry as it is an optional key or should it still be flagged as a validation error?

[hhrutter]

I don't know if this answers your question but
the optional Version entry in the catalog cannot be ignored since its intention is to override the header version.