Re: [Swftools-common] Problem executing this Command on Linux Server

[Tariq Zubairy]

@Richardo, thanks for memory_limit tip. this solved one other issue.

When I run following command on command line under same user, it prints PDF info quickly.
pdf2swf '-I' '-Q' '240' '-vvv' abc.pdf


but when same command is executed from PHP it prints following and then aborts.

VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 1
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'BAAAAA+LiberationSerif-

Regular'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'BAAAAA+LiberationSerif-Regular'
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 2
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 3
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 4
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 5
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 6
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 7
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 8
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 9
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 10
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 11
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 12
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 13
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 14
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 15
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 16
FATAL   Aborting rendering after 240 seconds

any help or any way of getting exact information why process hangs ?

Thanks,

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Ricardo Pedroso <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Tariq Zubairy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have approximately 40 pdf files in a directory... I want to convert all
> these PDFs to SWFs. For this i need pdf information so that i can convert
> all the pages of PDFs to SWF pages.
>
> Out of these 40 PDF's I get error in almost 20 files...
>
> To get PDF information i use the following command
>
> CommandText: pdf2swf '-I' '-Q' '20'
> '/opt/lampp/htdocs/test_files/temp/abc.pdf
> and get the following error...
> Error: Unable to get pdf information

Is this error message from pdf2swf or from you php script?

> NOTE: This command executed successfully when I run this manually with
> different user context (on LINUX Server) for that specific PDFs whereas
> fails to execute when run through the php script under webmaster user. If
> there is some problem with the user rights then all files should give the
> same error through webmaster user but almost in 50% cases, it gives required
> information. I did not get any issue with PHP script with windows server.
>
> Any body having any idea ????
>

There isn't a direct  answer to this.

Some tips:
If you have root access you can "su - webmaster" to manually run pdf2swf.

You can use "top" or "htop" to check the amount of memory that each
pdf conversion take,
and see if you have a consistent behavior, like, the ones that are
failing consume more memory.

You can try to increase the php "memory_limit"


Ricardo