Bug#1003255: marked as done (Using pst-all makes dvipdf emit a transparency-related warning even if transparency not used)

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• To: "submit" <submit@bugs.debian.org>
• From: "Peter Mueller" <petermueller@ro.ru>
• Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 01:40:48 +0000
• Message-id: <3f04cf95e7eb5c42dc3e1d590f3481cc@mail.rambler.ru>
• Reply-to: "Peter Mueller" <petermueller@ro.ru>

Package: texlive-pstricks

Version: 2021.20211217-1

Let's construct mwe.tex containing

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

and run

latex mwe && dvipdf mwe

or

latex mwe && dvips mwe && ps2pdf mwe.ps

This prints

%%%% WARNING: Transparency operations ignored - need to use -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY

on a tty. Of course, one can do as the message says and add the corresponding command-line option. Still, I feel that the transparency stuff shouldn't even be in the Postscript file unless it is really used. So could pstricks be a bit more economical and not issue the transparency-related commands by default (or, equivalently, issue them only if opacity and the like is really used in the user's LaTeX input)? Alternatively or in addition, could ghostscript be a little less fussy about transparency and make ALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY default?

Bug report: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/629314 . The PStricks maintainers have been informed, too, just in case they don't have an update for this issue yet.




Thank you in advance,

Peter

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• To: Peter Müller <PeterMueller@ro.ru>, 1003255-done@bugs.debian.org
• Cc: Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>
• Subject: Re: Bug#1003255: No
• From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
• Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 08:05:42 +0900
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On Sun, 07 Aug 2022, Peter Müller wrote:
> It's not the presence or absence of any such check that makes it into a bug.
> It's the resulting behavior that has a bug.

As mentioned in the policy of the TeX Debian Maintainers, we don't fix
or work on bugs that relate to up-upstream, that is not directly related
to TeX Live and its packaging.

It is up to you to get your preferred changes into TeX Live, from where
they will find their way into Debian.

Up-Upstream bugs are closed.

Have a nice day

Norbert

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