diff --git a/libqpdf/SF_FlateLzwDecode.cc b/libqpdf/SF_FlateLzwDecode.cc
index db663429..a291145f 100644
--- a/libqpdf/SF_FlateLzwDecode.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/SF_FlateLzwDecode.cc
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SF_FlateLzwDecode::SF_FlateLzwDecode(bool lzw) :
     lzw(lzw),
     // Initialize values to their defaults as per the PDF spec
     predictor(1),
-    columns(0),
+    columns(1),
     colors(1),
     bits_per_component(8),
     early_code_change(true)
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/png-filters-1-column.pdf b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/png-filters-1-column.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5d9a8793
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diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/png-filters-no-columns-decoded.pdf b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/png-filters-no-columns-decoded.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db597042
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diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/png-filters-no-columns.pdf b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/png-filters-no-columns.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..83e9911a
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diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/specialized-filter.test b/qpdf/qtest/specialized-filter.test
index 284d5195..605dd7f2 100644
--- a/qpdf/qtest/specialized-filter.test
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/specialized-filter.test
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ cleanup();
 
 my $td = new TestDriver('specialized-filter');
 
-my $n_tests = 3;
+my $n_tests = 5;
 my $n_compare_pdfs = 1;
 
 # The PDF file was submitted on bug #83 on github. All the PNG filters
@@ -39,6 +39,18 @@ $td->runtest("stream with tiff predictor",
              {$td->FILE => "tiff-predictor.out",
               $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
              $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
-
+# TC:SF_FlateLzwDecode PNG filter
+# PDF:Table 8:Columns
+# The test file is invalid as it does not actually use one column (as is implied by the missing
+# key). However png-filters-1-column.pdf is the same file with /Columns explicitely set to 1,
+# and displays the same as png-filters-no-columns.pdf and png-filters-no-columns-decoded.pdf.
+$td->runtest("decode flate no /Columns",
+             {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf --static-id --compress-streams=n --decode-level=all" .
+                  " png-filters-no-columns.pdf a.pdf"},
+             {$td->STRING => "", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
+             $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
+$td->runtest("check output",
+             {$td->FILE => "a.pdf"},
+             {$td->FILE => "png-filters-no-columns-decoded.pdf"});
 cleanup();
 $td->report(calc_ntests($n_tests, $n_compare_pdfs));