Comment 8 for bug 1048045

Hi,

The error code is actually returned by pdftk. If you start pdfchain from
a terminal, the created pdftk command appears there. The error message
of pdftk is also displayed there.
Pdfchain in version 0.3.3 only supports the transfer of the file paths
to pdftk using index characters (A to Z). The simpler variant - a simple
list of filenames in a row (without options) is supported with version
0.3.4 ("Cat Simple").
It is possible that the fault is related with the extended delivery of
the file name. With direct input of pdftk command probably the simple
version was used (without index characters).
I think more likely a unhandled special character in the file path. An
error with UTF8 characters in the file path is also conceivable. With
direct input of pdftk command probably not a complete file path for each
document was submitted. Probably it was changed to that directory
containing the documents at first.
The error returned from pdftk "Input Output Error" indicates that a file
can not be found or read, or the output file can not be created.
The fact supplied command (including all special characters) would be
helpful.

Thaks for sending the bugreport.

Best regards,
Martin

Am Freitag, den 14.09.2012, 08:24 +0000 schrieb Johann Felix Soden:
> It seems that the problem occurs only with specific pdf files (scanned
> documents). Can someone attach such a file to this bug report, please?
> pdfchain tries to count the pages inside the pdf document. I assume that
> something there gets wrong.
>
> Does the bug with pdfchain still occur if the pdf document is processed
> with pdftk first (pdftk scanned.pdf output scanned_fix.pdf )?
>