Blank Pdfs

[salmonlaw]

Hello there,

I try to batch process .tiff files to convert them to .pdf. Multipages or not, the result is a blank single page.

I am using Xnview MP 0.69 with Ubuntu 14.04. I also tried with Xnconvert only and doesn't work better. It's very sad because Xnview looks so great !!!

Thanks in advance for your help...

[cday]

I try to batch process .tiff files to convert them to .pdf. Multipages or not, the result is a blank single page.

I am using Xnview MP 0.69 with Ubuntu 14.04. I also tried with Xnconvert only and doesn't work better.

In XnViewMP you used Create > Multi-page file... in the Browser?

I thought that worked correctly, at least under Windows.

In XnConvert there is no option at present to save multiple output files as a multi-page file, that is an outstanding request...

Edit:

Do you have Ghostscript installed?

Ghostscript is required to open PDF files but I'm not sure whether it is also used to create them: if you don't have it installed you could install it and then try again, x32 or x64 to match the version of XnViewMP you are using.

[XnTriq]

• Graphics Unleashed: Large Dimension PDF Files Are Fine, Adobe Is The Problem!
• InDesignSecrets: Beware 200" Limit for PDFs

200 x 200 inches is Distiller’s limit for PostScript. It’s based on the Windows printer driver limitation.

The maximum page size is 15 million inches (381 km), this is from the PDF Reference 1.6:

177. In PDF versions earlier than PDF 1.6, the size of the default user space unit is fixed at 172 inch. In Acrobat viewers earlier than version 4.0, the minimum allowed page size is 72 by 72 units in default user space (1 by 1 inch); the maximum is 3240 by 3240 units (45 by 45 inches). In Acrobat versions 5.0 and later, the minimum allowed page size is 3 by 3 units (approximately 0.04 by 0.04 inch); the maximum is 14,400 by 14,400 units (200 by 200 inches).

Beginning with PDF 1.6, the size of the default user space unit may be set with the UserUnit entry of the page dictionary. Acrobat 7.0 supports a maximum UserUnit value of 75,000, which gives a maximum page dimension of 15,000,000 inches (14,400 * 75,000 * 172). The minimum UserUnit value is 1.0 (the default).

[cday]

If the issue is the size of the images your files are created from, you might note that in previous tests PDF files created from images with very large dimensions that opened blank in Adobe Reader generally opened correctly in other PDF viewing applications...

If your images have unusually large pixel dimensions you could try downsampling them to smaller dimensions using the Image > Resize... function to confirm the problem.