> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Goldstein > > pdftk was a handy utility for splitting and combining bits of .pdfs. > Given a list of .pdfs it could extract page ranges of input > .pdfs and combine them to produce a new .pdf. > > Breakage may have been inevitable since pdftk is so old and > unmaintained... It's also i386 only which seems to have > scared off potential maintainers, at least that's how it > looks perusing gnats. > > I'm not savvy enough to figure out why pdftk is locking up to > where only a -9 will kill it. It's very repeatable (one > input file, one output > file, immediate lockup). Through truss it looks like it's > waiting for > a child to terminate but I'm not savvy enough to trace what > happens to forked off processes. > > Would some kind soul take a look at this? Alternately, are > there other ports that support pulling page ranges out of > pdfs to generate new pdfs? >
Hi Howard, I couldn't reproduce that problem on my FreeBSD 7.0 installation, but I have adopted the port and submitted a PR to upgrade it to version 1.41. If you have some time, please apply the patch I submitted (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?prp=124763-1-txt&n=/pdftk-1.41.patc h) to your ports tree and upgrade. If pdftk still locks up on you, please try the following command and forward the pdftk.log file to me: truss -f -s 256 -o /tmp/pdftk.log /usr/local/bin/pdftk <your arguments here> Regards, Greg Larkin SourceHosting.net, LLC http://www.sourcehosting.net/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
