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 -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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