GROFF PDFPIC converted w ImageMagick to .ms document causes "troff: sample.ms:18: division by zero" and leads images to show very right of the pdf doc

Question

I converted my original image to pdf with ImageMagick. If viewed independently, the pdf image looks perfectly normal.

sample.ms :

.PDFPIC Figure_1.pdf

Once I try to compile my .ms document with the following command:

groff -ms sample.ms  -U -T pdf > sample.pdf

I get the following error from groff:

troff: sample.ms:1: division by zero

The document does compile but it looks like this: image is way to the right of the page to the point its sometimes almost completely out of the page.

Make sure you have installed the poppler-utils package and so have the `pdfinfo` command. — meuh, Sep 18 '20 at 14:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '21 at 19:00

I was having the same problem and it seems like the PDFs convert generates are corrupt in some way.

I ended up using convert img.png img.tiff and then tiff2pdf img.tiff > img.pdf. Including img.pdf then worked just fine.

I used tiff2pdf just because that's what I had installed, but any other program should work too if it generates valid PDF.

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