Files chosen from "Recent" are not compressed.

[abhi-deshpande]

When a file is selected from the "Recent" place of the gtkfilechooser, it seems to be ignored. Only a notification is sent that pdf is compressed, but the progress bar just moves infinitely. No any output file is generated.

But, if the same file is chosen from its absolute path without using recents, it is compressed correctly.

This behaviour was seen on Densify AppImage 0.3.1 running on MX Linux 21.

[SonephetR2]

I had a hard time understanding why Densify sometimes works fine and sometimes wouldn't and this is it. I can confirm this behaviour on Densify AppImage 0.3.1 running on Linux Mint 20.3. Further, the same happens when using drag-and-drop. The app seems to be consistently working only when fetching the file via the "Select a File" button.

[jose1711]

Adding a console output:

GPL Ghostscript 10.00.0: **** Could not open the file None/a.pdf .
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/densify/densify", line 309, in on_button_clicked
    oFileSizeRaw = os.path.getsize(oFile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/genericpath.py", line 50, in getsize
    return os.stat(filename).st_size
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'None/foo_output.pdf'

What seems to be happening here is that unless you select the file manually the iChooser object (Gtk.FileChooserButton()) does not populate the current folder variable, hence this:

iPath = str(self.iChooser.get_current_folder())

produces None. What appears to be working much better is simply use the same output as the input file (regardless the method used to select it), i. e. change the line to:

iPath = os.path.dirname(iFile)

If someone wants to test properly I can raise a PR.

[hkdb]

@jose1711 Thanks for all your involvement while I have been super buried with work and other projects. This issue should be resolved in v0.13.2 thanks to @batikstudio. As such I will be closing it.