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[Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@xxxxxx>]

The problem is that the root object of the pages tree does not have a
/Type key in its dictionary. The PDF spec says that /Type is required
and must be /Pages for the root.

qpdf could and should handle this particular type of damage or could at
least give a better error message for it, but that's the problem in this
case. Right now qpdf uses /Type to determine whether a node in the pages
tree is a Pages dictionary or Page dictionary, but it could use the
presence of /Kids instead, which would probably be a bit more robust
since it would handle more types of broken files.

It would be a simple change.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397413

Title:
  QPDF: Exception: operation for Name object attempted on object of
  wrong type

Status in qpdf package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hello. I am trying to print the file at:

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/a3v7afl7lajolvb/error1.pdf?dl=0

  And I get this error:

  Exception: operation for Name object attempted on object of wrong type

  running "qpdf error1.pdf --show-pages" I get the same error.

  Thanks

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