[poppler] pdftoppm 0.86.1 / pdftoppm: Syntax Error: Expected the optional content group list

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 18 de maig de 2023, a les 0:24:14 (CEST), Jim Wigginton va 
escriure:
> When I try to run pdftoppm 0.86.1 (pdftoppm -png "GSK - Lamictal.pdf"
> output) on the attached PDF I get the following error:
> 
> Syntax Error: Expected the optional content group list, but wasn't able to
> find it, or it isn't an Array
> 
> 
> Would this work in newer versions of poppler / pdftoppm? I can't compile
> the most recent version of poppler because my version of cmake isn't new
> enough (despite being the newest available via apt-get) but maybe there are
> newer versions of poppler / pdftoppm that this would work on despite not
> being the newest version? If I were to try to find out myself I'd have to
> brute force compile a bunch of different versions, which I'd rather not do.
> 
> I suppose I could also try to compile a newer version of cmake but if the
> PDF just isn't gonna work on any version then that all is just wasted
> effort.
> 
> Any ideas?

As far as I can see the PDF is syntactically broken and thus we warn about it, 
so there's nothing for us to fix.

Do you disagree with my assessment?

Cheers,
  Albert