DTTG 3 is corrupting files

[kewms]

@eboehnisch

We believe that the problem occurs in a method that is applied to PDFs when you open them. It was actually suggested by the makers of the PDF engine and corrects highlighting and underlines that PDFKit on the Mac adds in a way that goes against the Adobe standard. When saving the corrected PDFs, for a yet unknown reason, writing the file fails and creates an empty or corrupted file. At least, that’s the theory for now as we have no device here that shows that problem in the labs.

At least my version of this bug (see other thread: Incomplete sync in DTTG3?) has nothing to do with opening the PDF files. DTTG3 was already listing the files in question as “0 pages” before I opened them. Also, I rarely annotate PDF files in any way, and definitely hadn’t annotated the ones showing the problem.

Now, it’s possible that there are two related bugs with similar symptoms, as my version also doesn’t appear to affect any other copies of the database.