On Fri 25 Jul 2025 at 07:14:22 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/25/25 6:58 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:41:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 7/24/25 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Have you tested poppler with trixie, because bookworm's is now > > > > three major versions behind. > > > > > > Bookworm(Debian 12) is the current *major* version. > > > > Software in a stable distribution like Debian does not get updated > > during the life of the Debian release. That means that the version of > > Poppler (or anything else, with some rare exceptions) that is in Debian > > on the day of the bookworm release is the version that is always in > > bookworm for years to come. > > > > I think David is suggesting that Poppler in Debian 12 is now three major > > versions *of Poppler* behind. > > That makes sense, especially after looking at the subject lines of the > last six months of the Poppler mailing list. > > After the dust settles from Trixie's pending release I should be able > to install current version of pdftk and the Poppler packages.
By which time, after poppler's sojourn in unstable, testing, and freeze, it will have fallen once again behind the release on the website, and development versions. The site does solicit bug reports, but only mentions rendering errors. If you read your OP, and then take a look at any typical PDF, you'll see that your errors refer only to deflate and endstream. Look at the dependencies for libpoppler and you'll see zlib1g listed. This handles the FlateDecode streams that you saw in the PDF. On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 10:31:52 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm still interested in the meaning of the error messages as it may > hint as why ""pdftotext" wasn't *exactly* what I hoped for. So if you really want to interpret your error messages, you may have to consult the documentation, or source, or development versions, of both poppler itself and zlib1g. OTOH, you could find out why "I could not install pdftk.", or stick to using pdftotext with page selection and avoid the errors. After all, pdftk→pdftotext, pdfseparate→pdftotext and pdftotext produce identical results from that PDF. Of course, we have no idea "*exactly*" what you hoped for. Cheers, David.
