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kotteswaran85

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Registered: 2023-02-11

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wps writer encounter an error while trying export to pdf

Bro
iam facing issue on export to PDF while using wps office

"wps writer encounter an error while trying export to PDF"

this is the error messages i am getting
please help me to fix it this issue

thankyou

Stefan Husmann

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Re: wps writer encounter an error while trying export to pdf

Latest AUR-comment says "Anyone who meet the problem of launching wpspdf, please install the optional dependency libtiff5".  Hope this helps.

kotteswaran85

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Re: wps writer encounter an error while trying export to pdf

thankyou bro

V1del

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Re: wps writer encounter an error while trying export to pdf

Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.

moriartynz

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Re: wps writer encounter an error while trying export to pdf

Latest AUR-comment says "Anyone who meet the problem of launching wpspdf, please install the optional dependency libtiff5".  Hope this helps.

As of the rolling release now, there is no official `libtiff5` package. However, this issue can be addressed by symlinking libtiff6 as libtiff5. As root:

ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.6 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5

Last edited by moriartynz (2024-03-29 06:57:02)

V1del

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Re: wps writer encounter an error while trying export to pdf

This isn't a fix and is papering over the problem and hoping that the used APIs haven't changed. The version there is different because the libraries are incompatible. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libtiff5 exists, use that

jiapei100

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Re: wps writer encounter an error while trying export to pdf

Thank you @moriartynz.

ln -s libtiff.so.6 libtiff.so.5

works for me.

Latest AUR-comment says "Anyone who meet the problem of launching wpspdf, please install the optional dependency libtiff5".  Hope this helps.

As of the rolling release now, there is no official `libtiff5` package. However, this issue can be addressed by symlinking libtiff6 as libtiff5. As root:

ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.6 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5

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V1del

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Re: wps writer encounter an error while trying export to pdf

You are risking undefined behaviour with that. Don't make a habit of randomly symlinking incompatible versions around .

Always amazed at how the second post of a thread contains the real and actual solutions and yet people gravitate towards the wrong one because it "looks" simpler...