Bug#910274: ghostscript: ps2pdf removes links from PDF files
Control: retitle -1 ghostscript: ps2pdf removes links from PDF file / does not keep all annotations
On 2018-10-04 15:04:19 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Vincent Lefevre (2018-10-04 14:44:08)
[...]
> > As a conversion tool, it should neither lose information, nor assume
> > anything about what will be done with the PDF file. Thus
> > -dPrinted=false should be passed to gs by the ps2pdfwr script.
> >
> > If this is not intended to be a conversion tool, the description
> > should be fixed.
>
> Ah, good point!
>
> Let's see how upstream reacts to that.
Upstream has closed my bug report as a duplicate of bug 699830 again.
However, there has been another bug report from another user (who
also uses Ghostscript for its compress feature):
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699896
also closed as a duplicate, but upstream eventually recognizes that
there is a limitation of the combination of the PDF interpreter and
pdfwrite, and "will consider doing something further for pdfwrite
and annotations".
The -dPrinted=false was suggested in bug 699830 to keep link
annotations, but it has a drawback: it will drop the "print"
annotations.
So, there is no longer any way to keep all annotations.
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