Bug#425405: Not a bug
Does this issue still apply to what currently is in Bullseye?
Martin-Éric
pe 4. kesäk. 2021 klo 10.30 Jonas Smedegaard (jonas@jones.dk) kirjoitti:
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Quoting Jonathan Nieder (2021-06-04 04:27:16)
> > Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > I agree that this is unlikely a bug in Ghostscript.
> > >
> > > The test PDF provided by Jonathan Nieder _is_ searchable with Evince
> > > 3.38.2-1.
> > >
> > > If same file was not searchable with Evince available in January
> > > 2011, then the issue might be the encoding of the strings in the
> > > PDF, or it might be something else that confused that older release
> > > of Evince.
> > >
> > > But that test file was produced by LibreOffice. I would expect that
> > > a file generated by cups-pdf would instead have cups-pdf as creator
> > > in the metadata.
> > >
> > > I therefore suspect that the test PDF file should be ignored for
> > > this issue, and that the originally reported issue is a different
> > > one:
> > [...]
> > > For the record: If you suspect that an issue is in Ghostscript then
> > > please provide the ghostscript command that causes this issue -
> > > without that the only possible action is to tag it as unreproducible
> > > and close it, which is not really helpful.
> >
> > This response is puzzling. The example that I produced was a simple
> > postscript file and then a ps2pdf command that invokes ghostscript to
> > produce this issue. I don't understand why you're insisting
> > simultaneously that I should have
> >
> > - used cups-pdf instead of using ghostscript directly
> > - used ghostscript directly instead of using a larger pipeline that
> > invokes it
> >
> > since I don't see how those are possible to do at the same time.
>
> That last paragraph above was targeted others than you, Jonathan, and I
> agree: _Either_ investigate as cups-pdf issue _or_ as ghostscript issue.
>
> Let me try clarify by rephrasing the sentence I suspect caused
> confusion:
>
> If anyone still suspect that an issue is in Ghostscript then please
> provide the ghostscript command that causes it, like Jonathan did.
>
> Sorry for my ambiguity, and thanks for pointing it out,
>
>
> - Jonas
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