[Bug 44523] Re: abiword eats memory (possible OOM) and hangs when opening PDFs

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

With that part tracked down I guess we are left with whether abiword
should cope better with binary files being parsed as text... Since it
can't actually display a binary file that contains text perhaps it would
be better if it popped up a warning when such files were opened?

OpenOffice Writer actually pops up a "parse as" list when given a
document it can't identify and setting the parse format to text resulted
in the document being loaded in 5 seconds (of course it looked a mess
and had lots of black diamonds in it). The same document doesn't finish
loading in abiword after 5 minutes...

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abiword eats memory (possible OOM) and hangs when opening PDFs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44523