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Some elements missing from PDF thumbnails
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The pages in the scanned PDF file http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houston17RailroadsMeetTheSea.pdf (which originally comes from http://www.archive.org/details/houstonwhereseve00farb) appear to consist of high-resolution b&w (well, black-and-transparent, really) images overlaid on top of lower resolution color images. However, in the thumbnails only the low resolution color layer is shown, so that for example page 9 appears completely blank, even though it actually contains a substantial amount of text.

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URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Houston17RailroadsMeetTheSea.pdf&page=9

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:11 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler.
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Ilmari_Karonen created this task.May 24 2010, 10:32 PM
Ilmari_Karonen added a comment.May 26 2010, 6:45 AM

The black-and-white version of the same PDF (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houstonwhereseve00farb_bw.pdf) also breaks, but in a different way: no thumbnails are shown for some pages at all, and viewing the thumbnail URL directly shows the following message:

Error creating thumbnail: GPL Ghostscript 8.61: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
convert: no decode delegate for this image format `/tmp/magick-XXPAcJW7'.
convert: missing an image filename `/mnt/thumbs/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Houstonwhereseve00farb_bw.pdf/page1-794px-Houstonwhereseve00farb_bw.pdf.jpg'.

• bzimport added a comment.Oct 14 2011, 11:21 PM

py wrote:

this is referenced by rt 1175 which is now closed.

this can probably be closed, but needs verification.

• RobLa-WMF added a comment.May 8 2012, 1:14 AM

Only looks partially fixed by the GS upgrade to 8.71 (bug 26388). Looks like it'll likely get solved with an upgrade to GS 9.05 (bug 36580).

Nemo_bis added a comment.Oct 25 2012, 12:35 PM

(In reply to comment #3)

Only looks partially fixed by the GS upgrade to 8.71 (bug 26388). Looks like
it'll likely get solved with an upgrade to GS 9.05 (bug 36580).

No. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/PL_Gallus_Anonymus_-_Kronika_Marcina_Galla.pdf/page1-81px-PL_Gallus_Anonymus_-_Kronika_Marcina_Galla.pdf.jpg

Error generating thumbnail

Error creating thumbnail: GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
convert: no decode delegate for this image format `/tmp/magick-18ivK2AC' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/532.
convert: missing an image filename `/tmp/transform_5a720eb26b35-1.jpg' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3011.

The PDF has an absurd resolution but works fine in okular.

• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Nov 24 2014, 3:37 PM
matmarex subscribed.Aug 30 2015, 9:41 PM

All of the files linked in the discussion here thumbnail correctly for me now.

In T25652#290637, @RobLa-WMF wrote:

Only looks partially fixed by the GS upgrade to 8.71 (bug 26388). Looks like it'll likely get solved with an upgrade to GS 9.05 (bug 36580).

We're running Ghostscript 9.10 these days.

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matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Aug 30 2015, 9:41 PM
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Nemo_bis added a comment.Aug 30 2015, 9:53 PM

Verified fixed with https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/PL_Gallus_Anonymus_-_Kronika_Marcina_Galla.pdf/page1-83px-PL_Gallus_Anonymus_-_Kronika_Marcina_Galla.pdf.jpg

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