Ubuntu
pdfchain package

  1. Bug #1048045
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1048045

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Johann Felix Soden (johfel) wrote : Re: PDF Chain errors when attempting to concatenate PDF files

As this bug still affects all current official Ubuntu pdfchain packages, this bug was wrongly marked "Fix Released",
which hides the bug from users. Due to (in my eyes) wrong restrictions in Launchpad, I cannot change/undo this.
I would be glad, if Jake Hansen as bug reporter or someone else can fix this.
I added the upstream project to this bug, where the bug is really "Fix Released".

Since Debian testing is in freeze at the moment, I cannot really upload the new pdfchain upstream version via the standard way. However, I will try a different way to provide the current pdfchain upstream version officially to Ubuntu users.

But firstly, I want to solve this bug in the pdfchain 0.3.3 version. In newer upstream version, the corresponding code was re-written, which makes a direct backport difficult.
However, I found that enabling an extra re-indexing of all handles, solves at least a bug with the same error as this bug that occur when the ordering of two pdf files were changed after adding them.
As nobody yet provided me a "scanned PDF file" which triggers the error, I am currently not able to test if the fix works also for this.

I published a minimally modified pdfchain 0.3.3 version that contains the described fix, in my personal PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~johfel/+archive/pdfchain ) and need people who test it. Thank you very much in advance.