Thank you Gunnar. Dear Martin, Please refresh my mind -- is pdftk a strict requirement now for impressive or should still be optional, whenever
mupdf-tools (>= 1.5) | poppler-utils
would be the tools to require? Gunnar reports that without pdftk he had
no luck seeing a presentation.
Cheers,
On Mon, 07 Mar 2022, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Package: impressive
> Version: 0.13.0~beta2-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> Whenever I try to open a PDF presentation with impressive, I get the
> following error message:
> Welcome to Impressive version 0.13.0-beta2 (SVN r298)
> pygame 1.9.6
> Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
> Detected screen size: 1920x1080 pixels
> PDF renderer: Xpdf/Poppler
> pdftkParse() FAILED
> WARNING: The input file `/tmp/testfile.pdf' could not be analyzed.
> The presentation doesn't have any pages, quitting.
> Do note that I am running this on ARM64, and using Wayland.
> And... Oh! This seems to be due to a missing dependency! I was
> checking through the list of versions of depends/recommends/suggests
> (am not running reportbug from the affected system), and turns out
> that installing pdftk (or rather, pdftk-java, as pdftk is now just a
> transitional package) fixes the issue. Just for completeness sake, the
> PDF renderer is still marked to be Xpdf/Poppler, but now it reports
> "OpenGL renderer: FD630" and... works! :-D
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: arm64
> Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> Versions of packages impressive depends on:
> ii poppler-utils 20.09.0-3.1
> ii python3 3.9.8-1
> ii python3-pil 9.0.1-1
> pn python3-pygame 1.9.6+dfsg-5
> Versions of packages impressive recommends:
> ii ffmpeg 7:4.3.1-3+b2
> ii mplayer 2:1.4+ds1-1+b1
> ii perl 5.34.0-3
> ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1
> Versions of packages impressive suggests:
> ii ghostscript 9.55.0~dfsg-3
> pn latex-beamer <none>
> pn pdftk <none>
> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
> index 12a1a9d..981c495 100644
> --- a/debian/control
> +++ b/debian/control
> @@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ Depends: python3,
> python3-pygame,
> python3-pil,
> mupdf-tools (>= 1.5) | poppler-utils,
> + pdftk-java,
> Recommends: mplayer,
> ffmpeg,
> perl,
> xdg-utils
> Suggests: ghostscript,
> latex-beamer,
> - pdftk,
> Conflicts: keyjnote (<< 0.10.2r-0)
> Provides: keyjnote
> Replaces: keyjnote (<< 0.10.2r-0)
--
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org
Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
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