My original bug report was probably filed in error. Over the past two
years, I came to the conclusion that the problems were caused by the
exceptional amount of space taken up by the ppms but not by a bug within
xpdf or poppler.
The status will be marked as invalid.
** Changed in: xpdf (Ubuntu)
in karmic ubuntu: pdfimages creates a ppm file containing all the images in the
pdf file instead of one image in each ppm file. This takes up exceptional
amounts of space. Also, using -j did not create any JPGs. I have attached a
tar.gz file containing the pdf file and the first 2 (out of over 3
Okay I need to apologize again. This is my first time filing a bug
report. The man page for my version of pdfimages refers to XPDF but the
version actually installed is from poppler. So I filed against the
wrong package but don't know how to fix it.
Package: poppler-utils
Status: install ok ins
I was a little hasty in reporting this bug. It is not certain that
pdfimages enters an infinite loop. It could be that the PPM images take
up exceptional amounts of space. In my case, I aborted pdfimages after
it created 1.9GB of images from a PDF 11MB in size. Using -j did not
create any JPGs.
