terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Binary package hint: inkscape

When I attempt to open a particular PDF (attached: thesisconsent.pdf), I get the PDF Import Settings window. When I click OK the following error appears on the console:

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xp@CoreDuo-desktop:~$ inkscape thesisconsent.pdf terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'
  what(): basic_string::append

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.
Aborted
--

Other PDFs do not appear to cause this crash, and thesisconsent.pdf opens correctly in xpdf and evince.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 28 11:02:12 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: inkscape 0.46-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/bin
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SourcePackage: inkscape
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

Filtering the PDF through pdf2ps and then ps2pdf fixed the problem. However, inkscape was not the only program to dislike this pdf.

xp@CoreDuo-desktop:~$ pdfedit ~/thesisconsent.pdf
pdfedit: xrefwriter.cc:715: size_t pdfobjects::XRefWriter::getRevisionSize(unsigned int, bool) const: Assertion `revStart>prevEnd' failed.
Aborted

xp@CoreDuo-desktop:~$ pdf2ps thesisconsent.pdf

   **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
                 The following fonts were not embedded:
   Arial
   Arial-BoldItalicMT
   Arial-BoldMT
   Arial-ItalicMT
   ArialMT
   TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT
   TimesNewRomanPSMT

   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
   **** The file was produced by:
   **** >>>> Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows) <<<<
   **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
   **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
   **** specification.

[Thomas Wolfe (tomwolfe)]

I am also having this problem, and your fix did work. Thank you.

However pdf2ps did not report any errors, but after running it through pdf2ps and then ps2pdf it opened fine in inkscape.

attached is the pdf which produced this crash for me.