Will check the patch as soon as possible.
Ok, I understand the resolution/conversion problem. Which is the
recommended way to change the background of a notebook? Suppose I have
a 20 page notebook with a background page, and I need to change it with
a new background. What I am doing now is to open the new background with
"Annotate PDF", and then copy and paste the pages from another session
of xournal one bye one... which is quite suboptimal, I think ;-).
Romano
On 21/03/15 04:28, Denis Auroux wrote:
> Dear Romano,
>
> Thanks very much for pointing this out. I believe the bug was
> introduced in 0.4.6 when, for Windows compatibility, a lot of
> file-reading modes were changed from "r" to "rb" ("binary", i.e. don't
> attempt end-of-line character conversions). For fopen() this is
> innocent, but for some incomprehensible reason, the second argument to
> popen() in linux can't be "rb" -- instead of ignoring the useless "b"
> silently, this gives an EINVAL error that we ignored silently. The
> code for pclose() then failed to check whether the pipe was valid.
>
> Problem fixed by:
> - calling popen() with "rb" in Windows and "r" in Linux (so that it
> has a chance of working)
> - checking before calling pclose() whether the pipe is non-NULL (so
> that if popen() failed anyway we don't crash)
> - and also adding a shell-quote for the PS/PDF file name on the gs
> command line (so that it can work on filenames that contain spaces)
>
> This should be fixed in the cvs and git repositories now. Let me know
> if not.
>
> That said, using Page->Load background on a PS/PDF file is not a
> recommended thing to do in general, because it just converts the
> PS/PDF pages into static medium-resolution bitmaps using ghostscript.
> These bitmaps look okay on screen, but occupy a fair bit of disk space
> when saved, and are probably not good enough quality for printing. So
> it is in general much, much better to just use Annotate PDF to have
> whatever background PDF file you want. (Granted, because only one PDF
> background file can be annotated at a time, this will not let you mix
> and match different PDFs unless you use an external tool to produce
> the merged PDF file that xournal will annotate -- but the rendering
> quality on screen and in print is just way better.)
>
> Denis
>
>
>
> On 03/20/2015 02:53 PM, Romano Gtti (comp) wrote:
>> I have a very easy to reproduce crash with xournal 0.4.8 (it is really
>> 59f59806864ebb from git source), on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 14.04.2).
>>
>> I normally write notes by loading a PDF page as background, select "all
>> page same background", and start writing things.
>> Now, If I try to change the background with Page->Load background to
>> load another PDF file, the dialog opens and as soon as I choose another
>> background file(1) xournal crashes with a segmentation fault.
>>
>> Examples in
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57662186/xournal-crash-bg.tar.gz
>>
>> Can you reproduce it? It happens always for me.
>>
>> Romano
>>
>> (1) not related, but sometime the file chooser dialog hangs too ---
>> completely unresponsive (buttons reacts visually to clicks but nothing
>> happens --- this is sporadic but definitely happens often.)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Romano Giannetti
>> http://www.rgtti.com
>>
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