[Mediawiki-l] PdfHandler: Thumbnail creation fails

[Matthias Korn]

Hi,
I have a problem with the PdfHandler extension to display thumbnails of
PDF files

When uploading a PDF file the thumbnail and pages are not generated
giving the following error instead of the image (I've tried different
PDFs):

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Error creating thumbnail: convert: no decode delegate for this image
format `/tmp/magick-XXY76lVk'.
convert: missing an image filename
`/var/www/w/images/thumb/8/84/Poster.pdf/page1-424px-Poster.pdf.jpg'.
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Some debugging seems to show that Ghostscript may be to blame. If
writing the Ghostscript output to a file instead of piping it to
convert in the PHP script I get:

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Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in .setdistillerparams
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Issueing the same command from the command line works fine and produces
a thumbnail:

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('/usr/bin/gs' -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=- -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1
-r150 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q '/var/www/w/images/8/84/Poster.pdf' | sudo
'/usr/bin/convert' -depth 8 -resize 424 -
'/var/www/w/images/thumb/8/84/Poster.pdf/page1-424px-Poster.pdf.jpg')
2>&1
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Software:
Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64
gs-gpl 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1
imagemagick 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1~lenny3
php5-cgi 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4


How can I further debug?
Hope anyone can help!

matsch

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