Dear list,
Just following up on this for posterity. On Ubuntu at least the issue
appears to have been fixed in a Ghostsript update later in December, 2018.
In Ubuntu 16.04 the version of Ghostscript with the fix is
9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3. PDFs that were problematic before now have
A few updates, though still no solution.
It seems this only affects certain PDFs. I've tried to inspect some of the
affected PDFs to see if I can find a pattern, but haven't found anything
conclusive yet. The only small detail is that two problematic PDFs were
created with "Microsoft® Word 2016"
Dear list,
Another recent update in Debian / Ubuntu has broken PDF thumbnail
generation in DSpace 5 and 6, though this time it is the Ghostscript
package rather than ImageMagick. You should see errors like this when you
try to run filter-media:
org.im4java.core.InfoException:
Great idea, Tim! I just logged it in Jira as DS-4052.
https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-4052
Regards,
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 7:23 PM Tim Donohue wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Could you create a "documentation" ticket for this in our JIRA system (as
> that's sometimes an easier place to find "known
Alan,
Could you create a "documentation" ticket for this in our JIRA system (as
that's sometimes an easier place to find "known issues")? This sounds like
something we should get into the official documentation, and having a
ticket to remind us (and as a place to add additional
Dear DSpace people,
Recently I noticed that our PDFs were not getting thumbnails generated for
them. I ran the filter-media script manually and saw an error like this:
org.im4java.core.InfoException: org.im4java.core.CommandException:
org.im4java.core.CommandException: identify: not authorized
