...and fails to validate it properly. $ pdfseparate foo.pdf %d.pdf works fine $ pdfseparate foo.pdf '%03d.pdf' Syntax Error: '%03d.pdf' must contain '%%d' if more than one page should be extracted $ pdfseparate foo.pdf '%s%d.pdf' Segmentation fault Looks like someone relies on quite a weak argument validation.
Which poppler version is this? Does it still happen with app-text/poppler-0.24.0 ?
Yep, I can reproduce it with that version.
Seems fixed upstream, no segfaults with =app-text/poppler-0.26.2.