Hans, To close this thread, both poppler and exiftool worked properly after I upgraded to the latest version (details below). I will add a section in the wiki about these tools, as they are mighty useful when working with PDFs.
mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 1.04 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /home/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2021.08.10 12:42 mtx-context | main context file: /home/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/context.mkxl mtx-context | current version: 2021.08.10 12:42 Thanks again! best regards, Ramkumar On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 7:01 PM Ramkumar KB <ramkuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hans, > > Thanks for the feedback. I will update to the latest version and run some > tests again. > > mtxrun does not list the custom attributes unlike the others. From our > (limited) experience, mutool / poppler / exiftool all excel in different > areas. Dealing with different tools and keeping them upto date is > something we have internalized. > > We did observe that mutool did not give errors with version 1.0.4 but > others did. In the ConTeXt development workflow, are there any tests with > such external tools (to possibly catch regression issues)? > > We have experienced (reasonable) success with tools like diff-pdf > <https://vslavik.github.io/diff-pdf/> to catch regression in our workflow. > > Thank you as always! > > best regards, > Ramkumar > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 3:19 PM Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> On 8/10/2021 6:33 AM, Ramkumar KB via ntg-context wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > We use PDF tools like mutool, pdfinfo (from poppler) and exiftool in >> our >> > workflow (once the PDFs are created by ConTeXt). >> > >> > But looks like we have hit upon some regression issue between 1.0.3 and >> > 1.0.4 versions. Both pdfinfo (from poppler) and exiftool are able to >> > read PDFs created from 1.0.3 but have trouble reading PDFs created with >> > 1.0.4. Please see below logs for details. >> hard to say without files but indeed updating might help >> >> btw, there is (kind of old but still ok): >> >> mtxrun --script pdf --info filename.pdf >> >> Hans >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE >> Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands >> tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >
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