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Package: pstoedit
Version: 3.33-15
Severity: minor
Hello,
I see useability as one of the criteria to estimate the program quality.
The rough estimate of it can be done by comparing the expectations of
DIN-EN-ISO-9241 with the user model of some program.
In this context, pstoedit badly fails. Why? I, as a dumb user in this
case, expect this tool to convert a ps file into an editable format. How
do I get when I read the -help output or the manpage? Not anything that
shows me how exactly to use this tool. The -help output should tell you
something like:
pstoedit <switch> <format> inputfile outputfile
Instead, it says "No backend specified". Fine. What should I do with
THAT MESSAGE? Question a) what is a backend, and b) how to specify it?
For a), I can guess that my output format is meant. But how to specify?
There is only a HUGE list of options and it is hard to see which
one is to specify the backend. Now I say "pstoedit | grep backend" and
what happens? Not what you expect, it puts the help message to STDERR
thouh -h is specified. WTF? We continue:
pstoedit 2>&1 | grep backend
No backend specified
<some options about backends but not saying how to specify it>
So what now? Let's read the manpage. Looking for "backend" and found...
nothing useful! Rereading the SYNOPSIS. Oh, fine, it is called "format"
this time. What is the different between backend and format? Oh, well,
it somehow becomes clear after reading two pages of other junk. Or not
so clear? It says -f format:options so I assume it means -f format:ps or
so. Or not? A quick test shows that "-f<format>:<format-options>" is
menat in the docs where format is the one from the list of backends.
Ok. But is that userfriendly? Most certainly not. So, please, consider
following things:
- keep the language/terminology consistent
- add example line to the usage, not only to the manpage
- sort the options according to their priority (in user's eyes), don't
throw most important options among rarely used ones. Consider doing
something like:
pstoedit: version 3.33 / DLL interface 108 (build Sep 3 2005 - release build)
: Copyright (C) 1993 - 2003 Wolfgang Glunz
USAGE: pstoedit -f "<format>[:options]" <advanced opts> input-file [output-file]
Options:
-f <string> : target format identifier. Use -help to see available formats.
-page <int> : extract a specific page: 0 means all pages
- scale <double> : scale factor applied to the output
Advanced options:
<the long list of the less relevant options>
Last point: the descriptoin of the "-bo" option in the list of options
is odd. Please describe what it actually does, not only some possible
case of its usage. Eg. "Expect input to be in pstoedit's intermediate
format, not using other preprocessing. Useful to do: ...".
Eduard.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: pstoedit
Source-Version: 3.44-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pstoedit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
libpstoedit-dev_3.44-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/p/pstoedit/libpstoedit-dev_3.44-1_i386.deb
libpstoedit0c2a_3.44-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/p/pstoedit/libpstoedit0c2a_3.44-1_i386.deb
pstoedit_3.44-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/p/pstoedit/pstoedit_3.44-1.diff.gz
pstoedit_3.44-1.dsc
to pool/main/p/pstoedit/pstoedit_3.44-1.dsc
pstoedit_3.44-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/p/pstoedit/pstoedit_3.44-1_i386.deb
pstoedit_3.44.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/p/pstoedit/pstoedit_3.44.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated pstoedit package)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:40:55 +0100
Source: pstoedit
Binary: libpstoedit0c2a pstoedit libpstoedit-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 3.44-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
libpstoedit-dev - PostScript to editable vector graphics library (development
files
libpstoedit0c2a - PostScript to editable vector graphics library (runtime
files)
pstoedit - PostScript and PDF files to editable vector graphics converter
Closes: 347732
Changes:
pstoedit (3.44-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release.
* pstoedit-config has been dropped; code relying on it needs to change to
using pkg-config instead.
[debian/libpstoedit-dev.files, debian/pstoedit-config.sgml] Removed.
[debian/libpstoedit-dev.files, debian/rules] Changed accordingly.
* [debian/rules] Configure --disable-maintainer-mode.
* Addressed in 3.43: usability improvements. (Closes: #347732)
Files:
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5e7040644db3a9ed9a346ee488c7f914 94614 graphics optional
pstoedit_3.44-1.diff.gz
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libpstoedit-dev_3.44-1_i386.deb
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