Fixed PDF Save Error with compression

[Uwe Strohbeck]

Hi,

I have a crash when I open an .emf file and try to save this as a pdf file. If I disable the pdf compression I don't have a crash.

I'm using (according to the list of installed plugins)
- IrfanView 4.30
- ImPDF 0.78

and XP Business - SP3

I have tried several other .emf files - same crash.
If I disable the pdf compression - no crash.
If I use e.g. a .bmp file and save it as pdf with enabled compression - no crash.

On other computers (with other OS versions - XP Home, Win7 Professional) but with the same Irfan 4.30 and ImPDF 0.78 - there are no crashes at all, regardless of the formats and if compression is enabled/disabled.

Does anybody have a hint where the problem could be? I have already cleaned any irfanview registry entry and deleted the ini-file in the windows directory before a new installation of irfanview - but without any success.

Best regards
Uwe

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I am not see any crash here when saving an EMF as a PDF with compression, so we need the file or a link to it.

[Uwe Strohbeck]

Hi Bhikkhu,

thanks for your effort to have a look on it.
As mentioned in my report - on my other computers there are no crashes. So it must be a crucial combination between IrfanView and my OS.
I've tried to attach the file, which causes an error on one of my machines, but it failed with the following error:
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Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_AttachmentFiledata in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 849
----------.

Nevertheless I expext, there will be no error with this file on your machine ;-)

Is there any additional information which I can provide to track down the root cause?
In the GUI I only got the crash dialog box. Processing the file on the command line I got some error lines. I will post this information later in the day, when I'm again on this 'special' machine.

Best regards
Uwe

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Try with this file. It works for me. EMF is not a format supported by this forum so you would have to zip it first.

If that also causes a crash for you, then you will have to wait for the PDF plug-in developer to pass by. I doubt if anyone else could answer your question.

[Uwe Strohbeck]

As promised, here are the command line print outs

If I call from Computer A:

p:\tools\iview\i_view32 money.emf /advancedbatch /ini="p:\tools\i_view" /convert=money.pdf

I receive the following error message:

Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Error: Couldn't read xref table

Just for clarification.

p:/tools/iview

is a network directory. If I call the batch job from another computer - using the same i_view32.exe on the network - everything works fine.

If I disable pdf compression, I can do the job also on computer A.

Any hints are more than welcome

[impdf]

As promised, here are the command line print outs

If I call from Computer A:

p:\tools\iview\i_view32 money.emf /advancedbatch /ini="p:\tools\i_view" /convert=money.pdf

I receive the following error message:

Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Error: Couldn't read xref table

Is there a reason to use the /advancebatch option?

The error messages look like that they are from a pdf viewer which tries to open a corrupted/incomplete pdf file. I'm wonderig how this can happen after a crash.

You may create a file ImPDF.log at the location of ImPDF.dll to get some logs.

Send it to the location given in the ImPDF About tab.

[Uwe Strohbeck]

Hi,

the advance batch is used for performing an autocrop on the .emf image befor converting it to .pdf

I didn't found any option to genrate a log file in the impdf.dll directory. Could you guide me how to enable this?

The only file which I was able to generate is a crash-log. But as mentioned before, uploading to this forum a file cause an error message - regardsless of the format. I've copied the first lines of this crash log, but I wonder if this file is of any help.

Best regards
Uwe

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<DATABASE>
<EXE NAME="i_view32.exe" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY">
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="iv_uninstall.exe" SIZE="29696" CHECKSUM="0x84BB7507" BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.0.9" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.0.9" PRODUCT_VERSION="1, 0, 0, 9" FILE_DESCRIPTION="IrfanView Uninstaller" COMPANY_NAME="Irfan Skiljan, IrfanView" PRODUCT_NAME="IrfanView Uninstaller" FILE_VERSION="1, 0, 0, 9" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="iv_uninstall.exe" INTERNAL_NAME="iv_uninstall" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright © 2011 by Irfan Skiljan, Austria" VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MO
......

[Uwe Strohbeck]

Update
I created the ImPDF.log successfully and will send it to the given address.

[impdf]

Thanks to the support of Uwe we could identify and fix the problem.

The fix will be included in ImPDF v0.82.

An intermediate version can be found here ImPDF_0_80_build 353