FS#55864 - [impressive] cannot open PDF 1.5 files, missing pdftk dependency

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Luca Franceschini (LucaFranceschini) - Wednesday, 04 October 2017, 14:33 GMT
Last edited by Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord) - Saturday, 02 December 2017, 19:49 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: impressive does not support (some?) PDF v1.5 files, printing the following error before failing:

WARNING: The input file `/file.pdf' could not be analyzed.
The presentation doesn't have any pages, quitting.

Impressive needs pdftk (tried with pdftk-bin from AUR) to be installed in order to handle PDF v1.5 documents produced by some programs, notably pdf(La)TeX, which is often used for presentations. Unfortunately this is not a dependency.
This is listed as a dependency by many Impressive package maintainers on other systems.


Additional info:
* package version: impressive 0.11.1-1
* from AUR: pdftk-bin 2.02_4_b2-3


Steps to reproduce:
Compile the attached sample latex file:
$ pdflatex main.tex
Try to open it with Impressive:
$ impressive -f main.pdf
This will only work if pdftk is installed.
   main.tex (0.1 KiB)
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Closed by  Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Saturday, 02 December 2017, 19:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed and moved to AUR.

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