Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf "segmentation fault"

[Matthew Morgan]

German Geek wrote:
> Hi, I had the same segmentation fault on some PDFs when compiling 
> swftools 0.9.0 from source on CentOS 5.4, Debian 5.0 "Lenny" and 
> Ubuntu 8.1 server, but when I installed the deb package on Ubuntu it 
> worked. Are we compiling it wrongly? I get the same warnings etc. All 
> i did was
>
> ./configure && make && make install
>
> after installing the dependencies from yum or apt-get .
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/i386/swftools/download (i think it 
> was that worked)
>
> We've now got an Ubuntu server. Had to switch from CentOS to that only 
> because of this issue. Would still be curious as to what the solution 
> to this is.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> ++Tim Hinnerk Heuer++
>
> http://www.ihostnz.com
>
>
> 2009/12/3 Jonas Schnelli <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>
>
>     Hi
>
>     I've tried to build the 0.9.0 version on debian lenny.
>     ./configure works fine, no missing library.
>     ./make brings all the "warning: deprecated conversion from string
>     constant to ‘char*’" (same in working 0.8.1release, but works fine)
>     ./make check, as written in INSTALL has no targets
>     ./lib/pdf/pdf2swf SOMEFILE.pdf gives:
>
>     Truetype wasn't able to load glyph 0, error 6
>     Truetype wasn't able to load glyph 0, error 6
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 1 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  File contains jpeg pictures
>     WARNING Approximating advance value for glyph 0
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 2 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  File contains links
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 3 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 4 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 5 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 6 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 7 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 8 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 9 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 10 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 11 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 12 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 13 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  processing PDF page 14 (1088x756:0:0) (move:0:0)
>     NOTICE  File contains soft masks
>     NOTICE  File contains forms
>     NOTICE  File contains transparency groups
>     Segmentation fault
>
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>
>     grz
>     -
>     Jonas
I don't know anything about the pdf2wf source, but could you enable 
debugging and do a stack trace?  That might give you a hint.  I'm sure 
there are several ways to do it, but the way I do it is run the program 
with gdb, then when it crashes, use the "where" command.