Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-26 Thread Nicolas George
Max Nikulin (HE12025-07-26): > You may have testing or unstable as a virtual machine. Of course, it means > using a search engine rather actively and perhaps some failures before you > will manage to setup it. Why a VM? A chroot is quite enough to run a simple program from another Linux, with only

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/07/2025 18:41, Richard Owlett wrote: [I'm running Debian 12.8 which is behind by three *point* releases.] I am in doubts if you have real reasons to do so. It may mean seeking some trouble. Trixie(Debian 13) will be the next major version. It is still in testing and not yet in full fr

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Jul 2025 at 07:14:22 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/25/25 6:58 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:41:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 7/24/25 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Have you tested poppler with trixie, because bookworm's is now > > > > thre

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/25 9:06 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 24/07/2025 22:31, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/24/25 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length Syntax Error (3557294): Missi

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/25/25 6:58 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:41:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/24/25 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: Have you tested poppler with trixie, because bookworm's is now three major versions behind. Bookworm(Debian 12) is the current *major* version.

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:41:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/24/25 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: > > Have you tested poppler with trixie, because bookworm's is now > > three major versions behind. > > Bookworm(Debian 12) is the current *major* version. Software in a stable distribut

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/25 4:15 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Are pdfseparate error messages documented? If so, where? I don't know about the "if", but the "where" would be < https://poppler.freedesktop.org/>. Jeff Not a particularly useful page except

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/25 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 12:46:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: Are pdfseparate error messages documented? If so, where? Have you tested poppler with trixie, because bookworm's is now three major versions behind. Bookworm(Debian 12) is the current *majo

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/07/2025 22:31, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/24/25 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length Syntax Error (3557294): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream lengt

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > Are pdfseparate error messages documented? > If so, where? I don't know about the "if", but the "where" would be < https://poppler.freedesktop.org/>. Jeff

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 12:46:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Are pdfseparate error messages documented? > If so, where? Have you tested poppler with trixie, because bookworm's is now three major versions behind. [Hopefully, this post won't languish at relay.mailchannels.net for four hours, un

Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Debian 12.8. > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for later > editing. > > I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current > and future goals.

Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 08:20:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Debian 12.8. > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for > later editing. > > I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current > and future

Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2025, 19:24:37 CEST schrieb David Wright: > On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 09:13:02 (-0500), David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 08:20:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm running Debian 12.8. > > > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > > > I wish to extract 2 of those

Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Are pdfseparate error messages documented? If so, where?

Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 09:13:02 (-0500), David Wright wrote: > On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 08:20:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12.8. > > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for > > later editing. > > > > I'm focusi

Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Debian 12.8. > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for > later editing. > > I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for > current and future goals. > > Doing "pdftotext -layout -f

Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/25 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for later editing. I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current and future goals. Doing "pdftotext -la

Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for later editing. I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current and future goals. Doing "pdftotext -layout -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-a.txt"