pandoc odt output doesn't include pdf images

[naught101]

I have a pandoc markdown file with a bunch of PDF images included. Conversion directly to PDF works fine, but when converting to odt, the images just appear as small image boxes with the text "Read-Error".

The same happens when converting to .doc and .docx, but I don't have MS Office on this computer, so I can't verify that that isn't a Libre Office problem.

Let me know if there's any more info I can provide.

[jgm]

Your pandoc version is always good to know.

+++ naught101 [Sep 01 15 00:00 ]:

I have a pandoc markdown file with a bunch of PDF images included. Conversion directly to PDF works fine, but when converting to odt, the images just appear as small image boxes with the text "Read-Error".

The same happens when converting to .doc and .docx, but I don't have MS Office on this computer, so I can't verify that that isn't a Libre Office problem.

Let me know if there's any more info I can provide.

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References

1. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2381

[naught101]

True, sorry. From the ubuntu repos:

$ pandoc --version
pandoc 1.12.4.2
Compiled with texmath 0.6.6.1, highlighting-kate 0.5.8.5.
Syntax highlighting is supported for the following languages:
    actionscript, ada, apache, asn1, asp, awk, bash, bibtex, boo, c, changelog,
    clojure, cmake, coffee, coldfusion, commonlisp, cpp, cs, css, curry, d,
    diff, djangotemplate, doxygen, doxygenlua, dtd, eiffel, email, erlang,
    fortran, fsharp, gcc, gnuassembler, go, haskell, haxe, html, ini, isocpp,
    java, javadoc, javascript, json, jsp, julia, latex, lex, literatecurry,
    literatehaskell, lua, makefile, mandoc, markdown, matlab, maxima, metafont,
    mips, modelines, modula2, modula3, monobasic, nasm, noweb, objectivec,
    objectivecpp, ocaml, octave, pascal, perl, php, pike, postscript, prolog,
    pure, python, r, relaxngcompact, restructuredtext, rhtml, roff, ruby, rust,
    scala, scheme, sci, sed, sgml, sql, sqlmysql, sqlpostgresql, tcl, texinfo,
    verilog, vhdl, xml, xorg, xslt, xul, yacc, yaml
Default user data directory: /home/naught101/.pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2014 John MacFarlane
Web:  http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is no
warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

[jgm]

Why don't you try with the latest version? There's a deb in the downloads section that should work on Ubuntu (assuming it's 64-bit).

+++ naught101 [Sep 01 15 18:40 ]:

True, sorry. From the ubuntu repos: $ pandoc --version pandoc 1.12.4.2 Compiled with texmath 0.6.6.1, highlighting-kate 0.5.8.5. Syntax highlighting is supported for the following languages: actionscript, ada, apache, asn1, asp, awk, bash, bibtex, boo, c, changelog, clojure, cmake, coffee, coldfusion, commonlisp, cpp, cs, css, curry, d, diff, djangotemplate, doxygen, doxygenlua, dtd, eiffel, email, erlang, fortran, fsharp, gcc, gnuassembler, go, haskell, haxe, html, ini, isocpp, java, javadoc, javascript, json, jsp, julia, latex, lex, literatecurry, literatehaskell, lua, makefile, mandoc, markdown, matlab, maxima, metafont, mips, modelines, modula2, modula3, monobasic, nasm, noweb, objectivec, objectivecpp, ocaml, octave, pascal, perl, php, pike, postscript, prolog, pure, python, r, relaxngcompact, restructuredtext, rhtml, roff, ruby, rust, scala, scheme, sci, sed, sgml, sql, sqlmysql, sqlpostgresql, tcl, texinfo, verilog, vhdl, xml, xorg, xslt, xul, yacc, yaml Default user data directory: /home/naught101/.pandoc Copyright (C) 2006-2014 John MacFarlane Web: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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References

1. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2381#issuecomment-136911841

[naught101]

Same problem, now with commandline complaints:

➜  PLUMBER_II git:(master) ✗ pandoc --version                                                          
pandoc 1.15.0.6
Compiled with texmath 0.8.2.2, highlighting-kate 0.6.
Syntax highlighting is supported for the following languages:
    abc, actionscript, ada, agda, apache, asn1, asp, awk, bash, bibtex, boo, c,
    changelog, clojure, cmake, coffee, coldfusion, commonlisp, cpp, cs, css,
    curry, d, diff, djangotemplate, dockerfile, dot, doxygen, doxygenlua, dtd,
    eiffel, email, erlang, fasm, fortran, fsharp, gcc, glsl, gnuassembler, go,
    haskell, haxe, html, idris, ini, isocpp, java, javadoc, javascript, json,
    jsp, julia, kotlin, latex, lex, lilypond, literatecurry, literatehaskell,
    lua, m4, makefile, mandoc, markdown, mathematica, matlab, maxima, mediawiki,
    metafont, mips, modelines, modula2, modula3, monobasic, nasm, noweb,
    objectivec, objectivecpp, ocaml, octave, opencl, pascal, perl, php, pike,
    postscript, prolog, pure, python, r, relaxng, relaxngcompact, rest, rhtml,
    roff, ruby, rust, scala, scheme, sci, sed, sgml, sql, sqlmysql,
    sqlpostgresql, tcl, tcsh, texinfo, verilog, vhdl, xml, xorg, xslt, xul,
    yacc, yaml, zsh
Default user data directory: /home/naught101/.pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2015 John MacFarlane
Web:  http://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose.
➜  PLUMBER_II git:(master) ✗ pandoc dissectingPLUMBER.md -o PlumberII.odt --bibliography=Citations.bib
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `figures/World_map.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/original/PLUMBER_original.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/metric_rank_correlations/original/PLUMBER_original_metric_rank_segment_slope_histograms.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/original/PLUMBER_original_by_metric.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/original/PLUMBER_original_site_averages_long.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/time_averages/PLUMBER_time_averages.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/model_metrics/PLUMBER_daily_model_metrics.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/conserving/PLUMBER_empirical_metrics_conserving.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/fluxnet_bias/PLUMBER_evap_fraction_bias_boxplots_daily.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/high_freq_normal_benchmarks/PLUMBER_high_freq_normal_benchmarks_by_metric.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/time_of_day/PLUMBER_lsm_by_time_of_day.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `plots_R/PLUMBER/means/PLUMBER_means_by_metric.pdf': could not determine PDF size
pandoc: Could not determine image size in `figures/CABLE_tvair_perturbations.pdf': could not determine PDF size

[jgm]

We haven't implemented retrieval of image size from PDFs yet. (This is a TODO item in Text.Pandoc.ImageSize.) We need image size in order to place the image in the ODT.

[dries863]

I have the same issue with Pandoc 1.15.2 on Windows. Any fixes?

[jgm]

The difficulty is that the imageSize function in Text.Pandoc.ImageSize still doesn't have code to extract the image size from a PDF. If someone knows how to do this, we could add it.

The dev version of pandoc allows specifying image sizes explicitly, which would allow PDFs (with sizes given) to be displayed even if we can't retrieve their sizes. I've added support for PDF in this way to docx in commit 622f09617e7ecac86024a0e63f4371112e315e2e. Something similar should work for odt.

+++ dries863 [Dec 08 15 02:32 ]:

I have the same issue with Pandoc 1.15.2 on Windows. Any fixes?

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References

1. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2381#issuecomment-162843045

[naught101]

A default of \textwidth or similar would be a good temporary fix.

[mb21]

closing this in favour of https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2350