Files with "#" in it won't open, due to parsing of document position

[Franz Fellner]

[8:29] $ touch "testfile#1.pdf"
[8:29] $ qpdfview "testfile#1.pdf"
"Error: Couldn't open file '/home/franz/tmp/testfile': No such file or directory."

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Thanks for reporting. This is indeed true. Switching the parsing to use a regular expression will hopefully solve this.

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Ok, the fix is in trunk revision 429. Testing is appreciated. (Might take a while for the daily builds to rebuild though.)

[Franz Fellner (alpine-art-de)]

Well... :D
qpdfview "test.pdf#1-#10.pdf#3#5.pdf#2"
does what it should - open page #2 from extracted pages #3 and #5 from the extraction of pages #1 to #10 from test.pdf - or so :D
So the regexp looks stable to me.

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

I attach this patch to fix the command-line parsing of version 0.3.1 for package maintainers to test and possibly apply to their packages.

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[Benjamin Eltzner (b-eltzner)]

Marking this as "Fix Released" in the package, as Quantal has reached EOL.