[reportlab-users] Wrong order of Filters in page streams

Andy Robinson reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:25:41 +0100


> Bernhard Herzog <bh@intevation.de> writes:
>
> [...]
> > the order of the filters is a bit strange:
> >
> > % page stream
> > << /Filter [ /FlateDecode
> >   /ASCII85Decode ]
> >  /Length 16339 >>
> > stream
> >
> > followed by lots of binary bytes.
> >
> > The above filter specification means that the stream will be first flate
> > decoded and then ASCII85 decoded (i.e. it was created by first ASCII85
> > encoding it and then compressing it).

I just fixed this.  Thanks, and sorry we failed to respond the
first posting - blame lack of sleep.

I can only presume that Acrobat either auto-detects or
totally ignores these parameters.

Thanks,

Andy