El dimecres, 24 de maig de 2023, a les 19:26:00 (CEST), Jim Wigginton va escriure: > If the PDF is syntactically broken then maybe the error message could be > tweaked? "*Expected the optional content group list, but wasn't able to > find it*" makes it sound as if the content group list is required and > optional is used as an adjective? Either the content group list shouldn't > be expected or it's optional.
"Optional Content Group" is a PDF thing, nowhere in that sentence says that the expected thing is optional. Cheers, Albert > > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 5:30 AM Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
