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| author | Seb Bacon <seb.bacon@gmail.com> | 2012-01-04 11:48:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Seb Bacon <seb.bacon@gmail.com> | 2012-01-04 11:48:07 +0000 |
| commit | 4a795ac97ae498aa28382186ccba6654a13685d9 (patch) | |
| tree | d3c0cb7b7524f997245d4abc2947e607cb9182a3 | |
| parent | 7b43446e89c585f874fd36b32971a18aadd519b7 (diff) | |
Mention pdftk loop-forever bug
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/CHANGES.md | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/INSTALL.md | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/CHANGES.md b/doc/CHANGES.md index 289f64b44..0332ff72f 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES.md +++ b/doc/CHANGES.md @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ * Your styles should be moved from `general/custom_css.rhtml` to a standalone stylesheet in `<yourtheme>/public/stylesheets/` * The partial at `general/_before_head_end.rhtml` should be changed in the theme to include this stylesheet * [issue #281](https://github.com/sebbacon/alaveteli/issues/281) fixes some bugs relating to display of internationalised emails. To fix any wrongly displayed emails, you'll need to run the script at `script/clear-caches` so that the caches can be regenerated +* During this release, a bug was discovered in pdftk 1.44 which caused it to loop forever. Until it's incorporated into an official release, you'll need to patch it yourself or use the Debian package compiled by mySociety (see link in [issue 305](https://github.com/sebbacon/alaveteli/issues/305)) # Version 0.4 diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index 2304a9a51..963d0b6f0 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ graphical interface running) on Linux. If you do install `wkhtmltopdf`, you need to edit a setting in the config file to point to it (see below). +Version 1.44 of `pdftk` contains a bug which makes it to loop forever +in certain edge conditions. Until it's incorporated into an official +release, you can either hope you don't encounter the bug (it ties up a +rails process until you kill it) you'll need to patch it yourself or +use the Debian package compiled by mySociety (see link in +[issue 305](https://github.com/sebbacon/alaveteli/issues/305)) # Configure Database |