[poppler] Patches for SplashBitmap/PNGWriter
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Fri Jul 16 06:32:46 PDT 2010
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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