diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f42a2f5c..34262ef0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2015-10-31  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
+
+	* libqpdf/QPDF.cc (read_xrefTable): Be tolerant of some malformed
+	xref tables that don't have the required trailing space after each
+	line.
+
 2015-10-29  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
 	* Implement QPDFWriter::setDeterministicID and --deterministic-id
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
index 8bc8afc8..a14a07ea 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ qpdf_offset_t
 QPDF::read_xrefTable(qpdf_offset_t xref_offset)
 {
     PCRE xref_first_re("^\\s*(\\d+)\\s+(\\d+)\\s*");
-    PCRE xref_entry_re("(?s:(^\\d{10}) (\\d{5}) ([fn])[ \r\n]{2}$)");
+    PCRE xref_entry_re("(?s:(^\\d{10}) (\\d{5}) ([fn])\\s*$)");
 
     std::vector<QPDFObjGen> deleted_items;
 
@@ -512,8 +512,6 @@ QPDF::read_xrefTable(qpdf_offset_t xref_offset)
                    SEEK_SET);
 	int obj = atoi(m1.getMatch(1).c_str());
 	int num = atoi(m1.getMatch(2).c_str());
-	static int const xref_entry_size = 20;
-	char xref_entry[xref_entry_size + 1];
 	for (int i = obj; i < obj + num; ++i)
 	{
 	    if (i == 0)
@@ -521,9 +519,8 @@ QPDF::read_xrefTable(qpdf_offset_t xref_offset)
 		// This is needed by checkLinearization()
 		this->first_xref_item_offset = this->file->tell();
 	    }
-	    memset(xref_entry, 0, sizeof(xref_entry));
-	    this->file->read(xref_entry, xref_entry_size);
-	    PCRE::Match m2 = xref_entry_re.match(xref_entry);
+	    std::string xref_entry = this->file->readLine(30);
+	    PCRE::Match m2 = xref_entry_re.match(xref_entry.c_str());
 	    if (! m2)
 	    {
 		QTC::TC("qpdf", "QPDF invalid xref entry");
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
index e222f756..7c377ea4 100644
--- a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ $td->runtest("remove page we don't have",
 show_ntests();
 # ----------
 $td->notify("--- Miscellaneous Tests ---");
-$n_tests += 76;
+$n_tests += 77;
 
 $td->runtest("qpdf version",
 	     {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf --version"},
@@ -570,6 +570,10 @@ $td->runtest("detect loops in pages structure",
              {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf --check pages-loop.pdf"},
              {$td->FILE => "pages-loop.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 2},
              $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
+$td->runtest("no trailing space in xref table",
+             {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf --check no-space-in-xref.pdf"},
+             {$td->FILE => "no-space-in-xref.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
+             $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
 
 show_ntests();
 # ----------
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/no-space-in-xref.out b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/no-space-in-xref.out
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..57b55a22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/no-space-in-xref.out
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+checking no-space-in-xref.pdf
+PDF Version: 1.3
+File is not encrypted
+File is not linearized
+No syntax or stream encoding errors found; the file may still contain
+errors that qpdf cannot detect
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/no-space-in-xref.pdf b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/no-space-in-xref.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a7dbbd19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/no-space-in-xref.pdf
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+%PDF-1.3
+1 0 obj
+<<
+  /Type /Catalog
+  /Pages 2 0 R
+>>
+endobj
+
+2 0 obj
+<<
+  /Type /Pages
+  /Kids [
+    3 0 R
+  ]
+  /Count 1
+>>
+endobj
+
+3 0 obj
+<<
+  /Type /Page
+  /Parent 2 0 R
+  /MediaBox [0 0 612 792]
+  /Contents 4 0 R
+  /Resources <<
+    /ProcSet 5 0 R
+    /Font <<
+      /F1 6 0 R
+    >>
+  >>
+>>
+endobj
+
+4 0 obj
+<<
+  /Length 44
+>>
+stream
+BT
+  /F1 24 Tf
+  72 720 Td
+  (Potato) Tj
+ET
+endstream
+endobj
+
+5 0 obj
+[
+  /PDF
+  /Text
+]
+endobj
+
+6 0 obj
+<<
+  /Type /Font
+  /Subtype /Type1
+  /Name /F1
+  /BaseFont /Helvetica
+  /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding
+>>
+endobj
+
+xref
+0 7
+0000000000 65535 f
+0000000009 00000 n
+0000000063 00000 n   
+0000000135 00000 n
+0000000307 00000 n
+0000000403 00000 n
+0000000438 00000 n
+trailer <<
+  /Size 7
+  /Root 1 0 R
+>>
+startxref
+556
+%%EOF