fix: check that the previous xref is not the just processed xref #727
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A customer uploaded several files to my employer's product which cause one of our backend processes using smalot/pdfparser (thanks) to bomb with a fatal out of memory error. I attempted to employ the configuration documented. This did not work. Based on metadata this PDF is a scan made on some copier, pdf version 1.7. I did a bit of tracing the problem and found that memory was exhausted in an infinite loop. It seems the copier adds
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in the trailing portion of a xref. The proposed change checks for this unique case where previous is the just processed xref and ignores it. This works for my employer's product.Checklist for code / configuration changes
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By the way, you don't have to provide a full fledged PDF file to demonstrate a fix. Instead a unit test may be sufficient sometimes,
please have a look at FontTest for example code.
Code changes without any tests are likely to be rejected. If you dont know how to write tests, no problem, tell us upfront and we may add them ourselves or discuss other ways.