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pdfchain package

  1. Bug #1048045
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 1048045

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Martin Singer (mpower3) wrote : Re: [Bug 1048045] Re: PDF Chain error 256 when attempting to concatenate PDF files

Hi Jazz,

it seems you are using PDF Chain 0.4.0 (or newer) with PDFtk 1.44. PDF
Chain 0.4.0 is only compatible with PDFtk 1.45, because PDFtk 1.45 has a
new command syntax.

You can install the new PDFtk 1.45 from source. On Ubuntu 12.10 LTS it
is easy and works well. Instructions for this are on
http://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/installation.html in Chapter "Compiling
the PDFtk from source".

On the other side you can downgrade to PDF Chain 0.3.5 (which is
compatible with PDFtk 1.44).

Greetings,
Martin

Am Dienstag, den 07.05.2013, 17:23 +0000 schrieb jazz:
> Hi,
> I have problems concacenate pdfs with error 256.
>
> Console output says following:
>
> pdftk A="/home/jazz/DOa.pdf" B="/home/jazz/DOb.pdf" cat A1-endnorth B1-endnorth output "/home/jazz/MPT0017.pdf" allow AllFeatures
> Input/Output Error - PDFTK returned: 256
>
> PDFTK command:
> Error: Unexpected text in page range end, here:
> north
> Exiting.
> Acceptable keywords, here, are: "even" or "odd".
> Errors encountered. No output created.
> Done. Input errors, so no output created.
>