flate (PDF::Reader::Filter)

    # File lib/pdf/reader/filter.rb, line 94
        def flate (data)
          begin
            Zlib::Inflate.new.inflate(data)
          rescue Zlib::DataError => e
            # by default, Ruby's Zlib assumes the data it's inflating
            # is RFC1951 deflated data, wrapped in a RFC1951 zlib container.
            # If that fails, then use an undocumented 'feature' to attempt to inflate
            # the data as a raw RFC1951 stream.
            #
            # See
            # - http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/243545
            # - http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_faq.html#faq38
            Zlib::Inflate.new(-Zlib::MAX_WBITS).inflate(data)
          end
        rescue Exception => e
          # Oops, there was a problem inflating the stream
          raise MalformedPDFError, "Error occured while inflating a compressed stream (#{e.class.to_s}: #{e.to_s})"
        end