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Error creating thumbnail: **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
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Author: robin

Description:
while uploading a PDF to the wiki I get the following message:

Error creating thumbnail: **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table.

  • The file has been damaged. This may have been caused
  • by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
  • Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.

ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

(process:15418): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory: Permission denied
convert: no decode delegate for this image format `/tmp/magick-XX17F1mm'.

convert: missing an image filename `/var/www/vhosts/entropiaplanets.com/httpdocs/w/images/thumb/4/4c/Ubermag2-2006.pdf/page1-424px-Ubermag2-2006.pdf.jpg'.

There are a few PDF's uploaded to the wiki already without much trouble, but whenever I try myself I get this error. Any idea?

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://www.entropiaplanets.com/wiki/File:Ubermag2-2006.pdf

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bz25214

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 11:11 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler.
• bzimport set Reference to bz25214.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Sep 19 2010, 1:10 PM
Bawolff added a comment.Sep 19 2010, 6:35 PM

Just as a note, I tested the pdf file to see if ghostscript just doesn't like it (I've encoutered a few files ghostscript just seems to refuse to read). I can convert it using ghostscript on my computer just fine (also works uploading the file to my wiki fine too), so its not an upstream issue with ghostscript. (of course it could still be that you have a different version of ghostscript then i do)

• bzimport added a comment.Nov 17 2010, 11:03 AM

mike wrote:

I have reproduced this bug with ghostscript 8.15. Thumbnails work fine with ghostscript 8.71.

As you can see at http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ ghostscript 8.15 is 5 years old, so my guess is it doesn't like newer versions of PDF files.

The only remedy to that at this point would be to update your ghostscript installation to newer version.

• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Dec 4 2014, 10:55 AM
• Gilles moved this task from Untriaged to Done on the Multimedia board.Dec 4 2014, 10:58 AM
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