Bug 105180

Summary: "Bogus memory allocation size" for many pdf created by inkscape
Product: poppler Reporter: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge>
Component: generalAssignee: poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: Inkscape svg source
pdf exported by inkscape
png exported by inkscape

Description Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-02-20 21:53:07 UTC

    
Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-02-20 21:55:29 UTC
When using Okular, I'm getting often "Bogus memory allocation size" error messages from pdf files exported by Inkscape. This typically involves embedded bitmaps, and the bitmaps do not display on the screen.

I'm trying to figure out if this is an inkscape or poppler problem. 

A reduced test case is attached (svg, pdf, and png rendering to show how it's supposed to look). 

Thanks a lot for your help.
Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-02-20 21:56:21 UTC
Created attachment 137484 [details]
Inkscape svg source
Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-02-20 21:56:45 UTC
Created attachment 137485 [details]
pdf exported by inkscape
Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-02-20 21:57:05 UTC
Created attachment 137486 [details]
png exported by inkscape
Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-02-20 21:58:30 UTC
Further information: 

* Gentoo
* Inkscape 0.92.2
* Okular 17.12.2
* Poppler 0.62.0

This problem has been plagueing me for a while though.
Comment 6 Albert Astals Cid 2018-02-20 22:53:57 UTC
the pdf is weirdly constructed.

There's a relatively "crazy" transformation matrix
  18158.399546 0 0 -7163.799821 -0.000000345 7163.799823 cm
which when asked to zoom ends up needing too much memory and poppler bails out.

poppler "could" try to work with such strangely formed documents but it seems to me that it's much better if inkscape creates better formed pdf files.
Comment 7 Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-02-21 13:55:25 UTC
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #6)
> 
> poppler "could" try to work with such strangely formed documents but it
> seems to me that it's much better if inkscape creates better formed pdf
> files.

OK thanks. I'm going to submit an Inkscape bug and link to it here. Let's see what feedback we get there.
Comment 8 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 10:37:10 UTC
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