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Diffstat (limited to 'app/models/incoming_message.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | app/models/incoming_message.rb | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/app/models/incoming_message.rb b/app/models/incoming_message.rb index 7d9cfbfa1..90ab84a8f 100644 --- a/app/models/incoming_message.rb +++ b/app/models/incoming_message.rb @@ -461,11 +461,23 @@ class IncomingMessage < ActiveRecord::Base if censored_uncompressed_text != uncompressed_text # then use the altered file (recompressed) recompressed_text = nil - IO.popen("/usr/bin/pdftk - output - compress", "r+") do |child| + if MySociety::Config.get('USE_GHOSTSCRIPT_COMPRESSION') == true + command = "gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=- -" + else + command = "/usr/bin/pdftk - output - compress" + end + IO.popen(command, "r+") do |child| child.write(censored_uncompressed_text) child.close_write() recompressed_text = child.read() end + if recompressed_text.nil? || recompressed_text.empty? + # buggy versions of pdftk sometimes fail on + # compression, I don't see it's a disaster in + # these cases to save an uncompressed version? + recompressed_text = censored_uncompressed_text + logger.warn "Unable to compress PDF; problem with your pdftk version?" + end if !recompressed_text.nil? && !recompressed_text.empty? text[0..-1] = recompressed_text # [0..-1] makes it change the 'text' string in place end |