[poppler] Black boxes in output of pdftoppm

Ralph ralph at plangrid.com
Mon Feb 13 11:37:47 PST 2012


Hi folks!   

We redacted the heck out of the pdf and still see the failure with pdfseparate and pdftoppm.  How should I transfer the PDFs to someone would would find it interesting?  I'd rather not spam the whole list with attachments.  

--  
Ralph G.
(co-founder of plangrid.com, blueprints on the iPad)


On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> El Dilluns, 13 de febrer de 2012, a les 09:33:01, Ralph va escriure:
> > Hi folks,
>  
>  
>  
> Hi
>  
> >  
> > I'm using the git master branch of poppler and using pdftoppm to convert a
> > pdf to png. With certain pages I'm getting black boxes strewn about the
> > output image.
> >  
> > See attached image for the results, this happens with both the jpeg and png
> > conversions.
> >  
> > Errors were:
> > Error (86695): Unknown compression method in flate stream
> > Error (86695): CCITTFax row is wrong length (972)
> >  
> > About 100 times
> >  
> > I really wish I could share the PDF but it's "confidential" as per our
> > clients request… I'm going to try to reproduce the error with some public
> > domain pdf.
>  
>  
>  
> Either the pdf is broken or our code to decode CCITTFax is broken, can't do  
> magic without the PDF as you'll understand.
>  
> Albert
>  
> >  
> > Thanks for any help!
> >  
> > Cheers,
> > Ralph G.
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > --
> > Ralph G.
> > (co-founder of plangrid.com (http://plangrid.com), blueprints on the iPad)
>  
>  
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