To answer various question:
MRAB -
I've tried worker threads, and it kills the thread only and not the program
as a whole. I could use that as a work-around, but I would prefer something
more direct, in case other problems arise.
Steve Holden -
A traceback sounds like a great idea, but I don't know how to go about it,
or know what is involved. Could you suggest a tutorial I could follow?
Emile van Sebille -
a Try/Except block was the first thing I tried, and it still dies with a
fatal error, even if I use a generic Except
Robert Kern -
A whoops, good catch. I meant to say gfx and swftools. I'm using PIL to
modify the images once I get a PNG from swftools, and I mis-spoke.
The code in question is:
import gfx
print "1"
doc = gfx.open("pdf", MY_FILE)
print "2"
page1 = doc.getPage(1)
print "3"
g_img = gfx.ImageList()
print "4"
g_img.startpage(a_page.width,a_page.height)
print "5"
a_page.render(g_img)
print "6"
g_img.endpage()
print "7"
g_img.save(TEMP_PNG)
which prints the following:
1
2
3
4
5
FATAL PDF disallows copying
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
/b/
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Brett Bowman <bnbow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to parse some basic details and a thumbnail from ~12,000 PDFs
> for my company, but a few hundred of them are copy protected. To make
> matters worse, I can't seem to trap the error it causes: whenever it happens
> PIL throws a "FATAL PDF disallows copying" message and dies. An automated
> way to snap a picture of the PDFs would be ideal, but I'd settle for a way
> to skip over them without crashing my program.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Brett Bowman
> Bioinformatics Associate
> Cibus LLC
>
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