Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore
Jin-Hwan Cho <chofchof@ktug.or.kr> wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>
>> I'm sending this E-Mail to the author of dvipdfm and of dvipdfmx as
>> dvipdfm seems to be dead actually (the latest version is from 2001
>> and in the Mail archive got 3 Mails in 2004 and none in 2005).
>>
>> The following bug was submitted here at the Debian Bug Tracking
>> system. There is an example file demonstrating that behaviuor but it
>> consist of private content and hence was not published. Please
>> contact us at 322713@bugs.debian.org if you need it for debugging.
>
> Thanks for the message. I could not remember the exact version date,
> but DVIPDFMx had no problem with PDF name containing "#" character.
>
> But it is true that DVIPDFM has such problem. Because the authors of
> DVIPDFMx have no right to fix a bug in DVIPDFM, we cannot do anything.
>
> The only person who can fix the bug is the author of DVIPDFM.
Of course. Can dvipdfmx be used as a drop-in-replacement for dvipdfm,
even if you don't process CJK files? Are there any disadvantages?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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