[poppler] Why do pdfseparate exit with status code 99?

[Thomas Freitag]

Am 17.07.2012 23:44, schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El Dimarts, 17 de juliol de 2012, a les 15:31:07, Patrik Ragnarsson va
> escriure:
>> As seen here:
>>> $ mkdir /tmp/pdfs
>>> $ pdfseparate
>>> pdfseparate version 0.20.0
>>> Copyright 2005-2012 The Poppler Developers -
>>> http://poppler.freedesktop.org
>>> Copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC
>>> Usage: pdfseparate [options] <PDF-sourcefile> <PDF-pattern-destfile>
>>>
>>>    -f <int>       : first page to extract
>>>    -l <int>       : last page to extract
>>>    -v             : print copyright and version info
>>>    -h             : print usage information
>>>    -help          : print usage information
>>>    --help         : print usage information
>>>    -?             : print usage information
>>>
>>> $ pdfseparate document.pdf /tmp/pdfs/%d.pdf
>>> $ echo $?
>>> 99
>>> $ ls /tmp/pdfs
>>> 1.pdf   12.pdf  15.pdf  18.pdf  20.pdf  23.pdf  26.pdf  29.pdf  31.pdf
>>> 34.pdf  37.pdf  5.pdf   8.pdf 10.pdf  13.pdf  16.pdf  19.pdf  21.pdf
>>> 24.pdf  27.pdf  3.pdf   32.pdf  35.pdf  38.pdf  6.pdf   9.pdf 11.pdf
>>> 14.pdf  17.pdf  2.pdf   22.pdf  25.pdf  28.pdf  30.pdf  33.pdf  36.pdf
>>> 4.pdf   7.pdf
> Good question, Thomas, anything special you had in mind when making it return
> 99 by default?
Good question, really. No, I had nothing special in my mind. Probably I 
copied the main of pdftoppm and removed too much, especially the reset 
of exitCode to 0 before the err labels :-(

Cheers,
Thomas
>
> Cheers,
>    Albert
>
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