BUG: Fix merge_page sometimes generating unknown operator 'QQ'

[rfotino]

Fixes #2587

[stefan6419846]

Thanks for your report and PR.

We will have to wait for one of the maintainers of the sample files repository (which I am not) to approve and merge your PR there to be able to update the submodule. Alternatively, we might want to use the URL-based test file approach for now.

[rfotino]

No problem thanks for the quick response! If just using a github-hosted file works for the URL approach I can update with https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/files/14895914/blank_portrait.pdf, and will also update to fix the code style issues

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[pubpub-zz]

Alternatively, we might want to use the URL-based test file approach for now.

I agree this approach which is as effective and may prevent data duplications

[pubpub-zz]

_data is private and you should use the get_data() instead

Can you also modify the test code to use the url of the data from the github comments

[rfotino]

Thanks I didn't know _data had a getter, I also updated the test to use get_data_from_url() and fetch the github hosted file so I think it should be good now - I'll close that sample-files PR and update the description