KeyJnote failing Error: pdftoppm produced an unreadable file (page 1)

This will fix it for you. I've sent this to the author as well.

btw, that patch is against 0.10.1 not 0.10, it will probably apply with fuzz though.

So is the bug going to be corrected in Gutsy?

Same problem here. Can someone please include this patch or some other solutions to fix this? The bug renders the whole package unusable!!

@Tim:
Your patch works here with manually installed KeyJNote. Would be nice if the error gets fixed before Gutsy will be released in 2 days.

Confirmed on my Ubuntu Gutsy.

Hi!

Not knowing much more than that Python is a scripting language, I just managed to adapt the patch to KeyJNote 10.0 (the current version in Gutsy). Maybe someone should look over it, but it works fine for me... ;)

All the best,

Martin

P.S.: Could someone please set this bug to "important" / fix it? This bug renders "keyjnote" completely unusable in Gutsy...

This is quite a bug! It took me a while to figure out what was happening, because KeyJNote is just broken. I didn't know what a .patch file was until I tried the "patch" command...so, if you want to download Martin's patch above, and try it, go to the folder where you've installed KeyJNote (I did a manual install from the KeyJNote site, just out of let's-see-ishness) and type:

patch keyjnote.py keyjnote_v10.0.patch

Then run KeyJNote again and it should work. Hope to see this bug fixed in the repos soon. :-)

If you can't adapt Marc's command for yourself, then download the patch, move it to your home directory, open the shell ("Terminal") and type:

  cd /usr/share/keyjnote
  sudo patch --backup keyjnote.py ~/keyjnote_v10.0.patch

You have to run "patch" as superuser (sudo), otherwise you'll get an error. This command also creates a backup of the original file (--backup), which is always a good idea if things go wrong, and loads the patch file from your home directory (~). :)

Martin

Thanks, the patch works fine!

Since there now is a working patch, would it be possible to get a patched package into gutsy-updates? A broken application should be reason enough to provide an updated package, I think.

The patch is working here too.

Thanks for the fix.

It is working in Hardy I just noticed. I stopped using it a few months back when I noticed this same issue. Version in Hardy is 0.10.2-1. Finally some cool presentation effects once again!

I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy and keyjnote 0.10.0-1 .

I installed keyjnote from the repos and couldn't get it work. I installed patch from the repos and applied the patch of Tim using Martin Zuther's commands, but I got the following error message:

NameError: global name 'RealPage' is not defined

Then, following bug #178429 in keyjnote, created by Siep Kroonenberg, I opened keyjnote.py with gedit and substituted "RealPage" with "page" (without "") on line 1050.

Now it works for me. I still had some rendering problems which I resolved by using parameter -e. My synthax is thus:

keyjnote -e MYFILE.pdf

and everything's ok!