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--- pdftalksnooper [2018/05/14 01:16]
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+{{:wiki:snooper_new.png?40 | PDFtalk Snooper Icon}}
 ====== PDFtalk Snooper ======
-Stand-alone tool for examining the internal details of PDFs.
+The PDFtalk Snooper is a stand-alone tool for inspecting the internal details of PDF files.
+Download {{ ::pdftalksnooper.zip |PDFtalkSnooper}} (~7 MB) Version 1.0.0, 14. May 2018
+The program consists of only one file and does not require installation. You could run it from a read-only medium like a CD. Error log files are written to %APPDATA% as SmalltalkedVisualsError<timestamp>.log.
+There may be bugs due to my bad programming or due to exotic use of PDF features. I you encounter something fishy, I would like to hear from you. If there is an error log (after a crash), please send it to me; and if the PDF in not confidential, I would love to have it for my test set.
+And, of course, any comment or feedback is highly appreciated.
+You can contact me at <mail@christianhaider.de>.
+===== History =====
+The internal name is "PDFExplorer", an integral part of the PDFtalk library. For the PDF Days Europe 2018 on the 14th and 15th of Mai, I decided to package the tool and make it available for the public.
+When implementing the PDF specification the tool was essential for me to understand how the PDF structures described in the specification were actually used in real world documents. When a new feature was implemented, the first step was usually to make the affected objects to display in a nice way in the Snooper. This meant to add a meaningful portion of the documentation, add the proper attributes like "required", add a nice icon and decide which attributes to hide in the UI.
-{{ ::pdftalksnooper.zip |PDFtalkSnooper}} (~7 MB)