Opening PDF file GIMP crashes

Submitted by jajazek on April 19, 2008 - 2:25pm.

Hi,

this is my first post on this forum Smiling. First I have to say the Portable Apps are amazing!

Last I searched for simple pdf2image converter. I found mainly commercial application, but I read that GIMP can open PDF files and save as bitmap. As fan of Portable Apps I downloaded GIMP_Portable_2.4.5_Rev_2.paf.exe and I installed on my hard disk with other Portable Apps. When I tried to open PDF file, a Windows pop-up asked whether I want to send information about problem of poppler.exe.

I downloaded and installed normal GIMP for Windows (gimp-2.4.5-i686-setup.exe) and I can open PDF files without any problems.

Any help?

Regards,
Jacek

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Hmmm...

My guess is that it wasn't included when JTH did the portable release. I wouldn't know for sure though.

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poppler.exe error

I just installed version 2.4.5 on a PC running Windows XP x64. I experienced a simalar problem when trying to open a PDF file. First a Windows error message appears, then a GIMP error message. See details below. I then tried the new version on a PC running Windows XP Pro (32bit) and the same error message occured.

Windows Error Message Details:
AppName: poppler.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: libpoppler-glib-2.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00001ed2

GIMP Error Message
Plug-in crashed: "poppler.exe"
(C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMPPortable2.4.5\App\gimp\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\poppler.exe)

The dying plug-in may have messed up GIMP's internal state. You may want to save your images and restart GIMP to be on the safe side.

Opening 'C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx.pdf' failed:
Portable Document Format plug-In could not open image

Previously I used Version 2.2.15. This version required Ghostscript to be copied to the app/gimp/bin folder to open PDF's. I tried this in version 2.4.5 but it had no effect.