Deflating streams

[alistair0adams]

Describe your idea

Decoding of steams is not part of the exposed API. It will save those not intimately familiar with the structure of PDFs a lot of work, or some may give up entirely on using this library. So why not put decoding of streams as part of the PDFRawStreams class.

How could this be implemented?

getContents() should look to see if the stream has been decoded. If not already decoded it should call decodePDFRawStream and store the decoded content in the class so the next time getContents() is called it just returns the decoded data.

What problem are you trying to solve?

Making this library easier to use. A user of this library shouldn't have to need to how deal with this like this user did: Hopding#1627

Why does this matter to you?

For my use I can just hack around it, but wouldn't it be better for everyone?

Would others find this helpful?

Yes.

Are you interested in implementing your proposal?

Yes

Why are you submitting a proposal?

Does this make sense? Is there something I haven't thought about (likely).?

Additional Notes

No response

[Sharcoux]

Hi

Thanks for the suggestions. Can you provide a PR please?