Created attachment 52689 [details] The problematic PDF Hi, I have have a problem with pdftoppm from poppler 0.18.0 and 0.16.7 (and probably others as well). When trying to convert a pdf to ppm with: $ pdftoppm -aa no myfile.pdf folder/foobar it spams the terminal with "Bogus memory allocation size". Let me know if I can provide you with any debugging information. The concerning PDF is attached. Regards, Fabian Henze
This is the desired behaviour, the warning is there to warn you something weird happened, in this case due to you not wanting aa there are some characters (for example the - of the exponents in page 8) are missing. If you want we can improve the error message.
I see, A descriptive error message would be very nice :) "bogus memory allocation size" sounds like an application bug. But why do these characters vanish with aa disabled? How can that be desired behaviour?
Noone said it is the desired behaviour. But it is what happens when you ask freetype to render that character with that font size without antialias, not much we can do if you choose to render without antialias, right?
(In reply to comment #3) > Noone said it is the desired behaviour. But it is what happens when you ask > freetype to render that character with that font size without antialias, not > much we can do if you choose to render without antialias, right? What about a "-aa little" setting which renders everything without aa, except for characters which can not be rendered without?
Sincerely, no, you asked for no aa and we did no aa, you might argue we should not loose characters, and I might even agree, but if you ask me it is a freetype bug that they return "empty" characters for when we ask mono rendering of the character. You might file a bug in their bug tracker if they have one.
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