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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 05 January 2009 10:26, Boris Epstein wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2009 10:08, Boris Epstein wrote:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > We've come across a PDF file that prints fine in Evince and KPDF
> > > as well as from the command line (lp filename) but would not print
> > > from Acroread. The error one gets is a vauge "draw error".
> > >
> > > The PDF is right here:
> > > http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/14/7160.pdf
> >
> > Perhaps its one of those "specially crafted" PDFs designed to
> > exploit a security flaw in (some version of) Adobe Reader??
> >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Boris.
> >
> > Randall Schulz
>
> That's possible. How do I test for that?

I did some searching and found many references to the problem, including 
several that claim it's on the rise, but nothing other than commerical 
anti-malware programs (for Windows, of course) that even purport to 
detect such PDF files.


Randall Schulz
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