[poppler] Patches for SplashBitmap/PNGWriter

Stefan Thomas thomas at txtbear.com
Thu Aug 19 01:02:56 PDT 2010


> There are memory leaks in [...]
>
> When the writer fails to close, right?

Oh yes, sorry about that! An additional delete[] row; should clean it up 
nicely.


>> On 7/16/2010 3:32 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>> A Dissabte, 10 de juliol de 2010, Stefan Thomas va escriure:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I've got two new patches for the cause.
>>>>
>>>> The first one adds transparent PNG support to PNGWriter and
>>>> SplashBitmap. The uses for this are varied and many, so I think it makes
>>>> sense to add this to the mainline, even though I don't have the pdftoppm
>>>> patch to go along with it. (We're using it in a custom SplashOutputDev.)
>>> Seems like it duplicates some code from the other method, would it be
>>> possible to merge them a bit more?
>>>
>>>> The second one fixes a nasty bug in SplashBitmap that causes "pdftoppm
>>>> -jpeg" to randomly produce corrupt images. Currently SplashBitmap frees
>>>> its temporary buffers and later calls ImgWriter::close(). Problem is
>>>> libjpeg still uses these temporary buffers during
>>>> jpeg_finish_compress(). So if they've been reclaimed - bad things
>>>> happen. Usually libjpeg aborts and produces an image with the bottom
>>>> fifty or so rows missing. The patch also fixes the SplashBitmap throwing
>>>> a splashErrGeneric despite success, which was due to a missing question
>>>> mark before writer->close().
>>> valgrind does not complain about it when i do
>>>
>>>     valgrind ./utils/pdftoppm -jpeg ~/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf -f 1 -l 1 foo
>>>
>>> Are you sure that is the problem?
>>>
>>> Albert
>>>
>>>> Hope you find it useful.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Stefan Thomas
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