On 22/08/18 17:42, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: > I'm using groff and -Tpdf and pictures included with .PDFPIC. > PDFPIC always crashes. The reason is, that pdfinfo has in its stdout > text not only text but also a '\0' char. The effect is, that pdfinfo > | grep gives an error message instead of the line containing the > measurements. > > What I did, is adding --text to grep, like > > .sy pdfinfo @$1 | grep --text "Page *size" | .. > > guilty is pdfinfo > $ pdfinfo -v > pdfinfo version 0.66.0 > Copyright 2005-2018 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org > Copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC > > > But anyway adding --text is a good workaround
Surely, the proper solution, as I suggested when PDFPIC was first mooted, is to avoid dependencies on third party tools, such as pdfinfo, in the first place, and to implement the necessary bounding box look-up directly within groff's input parser. I even posted *working* code: https://osdn.net/users/keith/pf/groff-psbb/wiki/FrontPage and offered that for comment, on this very list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-10/msg00017.html The response was, to say the least, extremely disappointing ... only Deri deigned to reply, positively, but (alas) not always on-list. I'd still like to see this integrated into groff, but I'm not willing to devote my own energy to dealing with the abomination that is automake, so I will need someone else to assist with build system integration. -- Regards, Keith.
