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

[Chris Pugh]

2009/12/8 Tariq Zubairy <address@hidden>:
>
> @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,

How many actual pages in the pdf?  Is it just 16 that is is causing the block?
What happens if you use the, -p page range, option and try 16 on it's own,
or start from 17 and ff?

Odd output to.  Using something like

<?php
   print exec ("pdf2swf [etc,etc]");
?>

with the verbose option gives me something like, for example,

page=1 width=595.00 height=841.00
page=2 width=595.00 height=841.00
page=3 width=525.00 height=640.00

If you suspect it's PHP causingproblems, have you checked the error
and other logs
( see contents of php.ini )?

Regards,


Chris.

> 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
>
>