Thomas Zajic

Okay, thanks a lot. I've already seen the patches you mentioned in CPANs RT, while I was looking for bug reports against PDF::API2 which could be related to this one. I meanwhile also tried the convert rose: test.tif thing on an FC32 workstation using a newer version of IM & convert. The test.tif it created was in fact 8 bytes smaller in size, and thus its size was a multiple of 12. This file was happily accepted by PDF::API2 and didn't cause an error. So it looks like it really was a combination...

Wow, you were spot-on with your assumption that the problem is within PDF::API2. I created a minimalistic test.pl consisting only of the failing code block: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature 'switch'; no if $] >= 5.018, warnings => 'experimental::smartmatch'; use PDF::API2; open(my $temptif, "<", "/tmp/test.tif"); my $temppdf = File::Temp->new( DIR => '/tmp', SUFFIX => '.pdf' ); my $pdfobj = PDF::API2->new( -file => $temppdf );...

Wow, you were spot-on with your assumption that the problem is within PDF::API2. I created a minimalistic test.pl consisting only of the failing code block: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature 'switch'; no if $] >= 5.018, warnings => 'experimental::smartmatch'; use PDF::API2; open(my $temptif, "<", "/tmp/test.tif"); my $temppdf = File::Temp->new( DIR => '/tmp', SUFFIX => '.pdf' ); my $pdfobj = PDF::API2->new( -file => $temppdf );...

Wow, you were spot-on with your assumption that the problem is within PDF::API2. I created a minimalistic test.pl consisting only of the failing code block: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature 'switch'; no if $] >= 5.018, warnings => 'experimental::smartmatch'; use PDF::API2; open(my $temptif, "<", "/tmp/test.tif"); my $temppdf = File::Temp->new( DIR => '/tmp', SUFFIX => '.pdf' ); my $pdfobj = PDF::API2->new( -file => $temppdf );...

The strange "installation" in /usr/local/src/gscan2pdf/gscan2pdf was only used for this report, I just copied the main "binary" there as I was too lazy to reverse-patch my actual installation in its original folder. Probably not a good idea, as it obviously created some confusion/irritation here. Sorry about that! The (rest of the) actual installation lives in /usr/local/stow/gscan2pdf-2.9.0, which is then symlinked back to the /usr/local/ hierarchy using - yes, you guessed it ;-) - GNU stow. I now...

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