Re: pkg/47936: thumbpdf does not work

[Stefan Schaeckeler <schaecsn%gmx.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/47936; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stefan Schaeckeler <schaecsn%gmx.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/47936: thumbpdf does not work
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:37:28 -0700 (PDT)

 Debian uses texlive that comes with a recent thumbpdf version. Like NetBSD, 
FreeBSD is still using teTeX with the same old thumbpdf version. That's a good 
point of comparision.
 
 The error results from a "wrong" intermediate file "thumbpdf.pdf". The second 
line is expected to be the "obj" line.
 
 FreeBSD thumbpdf.pdf:
 
 %PDF-1.4
 4 0 obj <<
 /Length 54
 
 
 Pkgsrc thumbpdf.pdf:
 
 %PDF-1.5
 %DOAO
 10 0 obj <<
 
 
 The second line is a comment and not expected by thumbpdf. I tried to 
reproduce it with a minimal .tex file:
 
 $ cat hello.tex
 hello world
 \bye
 $ pdftex hello.tex
 
 Same here. FreeBSD generates the obj line on line 2 and Pkgsrc on line 3.
 
 Not sure how to fix that. Either convince pdftex to generate pdf-1.4 files or 
make thumbpdf read over the second line (grep for "#get obj" in thumbpdf.pl).
 
  Stefan