[pdftex] thumbpdf & libpng error

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Sep 25 15:20:39 CEST 2001


Your versions of pdftex (which is very old) and of libpng (which is also
old) are incompatible.  libpng is very picky.

The pdftex version on TeXLive6 (which I have in use) seems to be
statically linked against libpng, solving this problem.

Update your pdftex to solve this.

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, E GCP wrote:

> <br><br><br>Hi!
>
> You probably have seen this error before, but the pdftex archives are not
> searchable.
>
> I have RedHat Linux 7.0 with libpng-1.0.8-1
>
> When I try to use thumbpdf to create thumbnails for a PDF document I get the
> error below. What do I need to do to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
> egcp
> ----
> THUMBPDF 2.10, 2001/04/02 - Copyright (c) 1999-2001 by Heiko Oberdiek.
> *** make `thumbpdf.pdf' / run pdfTeX ***
> libpng error: Application must be recompiled; version 1.0.6 was incompatible
> !!! Error: Closing pdfTeX (exit status: 255)!
> ----
> The thumbpdf.log is shown below:
> ----
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) (format=pdftex 2000.7.19)
> 24 SEP 2001 15:14
> **\nonstopmode\pdfcompresslevel9\def\thumbjob{dissertation}\def\thumbmax{31}\in
> put thumbpdf
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.tex
> File: thumbpdf.tex 2001/04/02 v2.10 Including thumbnails as images (HO)
> ****************************************************************
> * Generating `thumbpdf.pdf', each page with a found thumbnail. *
> ****************************************************************
> \thumbcount=\count26
> \thumbread=\read0
> \thumbfound=\count27
> * Looking for thumbnails 0..31:
>
> Error: pdftex (file thb1.png): png_create_read_struct() failed
> ----
>
>
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