On 2024-01-05 22:58:58 -0600, Steven Robbins wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:15:19 +0100 Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > > Package: ghostscript > > Version: 9.05~dfsg-8 > > Severity: important > > > > When I use ps2pdf on a file with highlighted/annotated text (as > > produced by Apple's Preview on Mac OS X 10.6.8), this text is > > displayed below the background with poppler-based PDF viewers > > (xpdf, evince, okular). > > > > I've attached the original file temp.pdf (no problems with it), > > the out.pdf file produced by "ps2pdf temp.pdf out.pdf", which > > cannot be read correctly by poppler-based PDF viewers, and the > > out.png file, which is a screenshot of "xpdf out.pdf" (so that > > you can see the problem). > > I don't know where the problem lay, but just tested now with xpdf > 3.04+git20231213-1. Both temp.pdf and out.pdf displayed identically.
I confirm. However, Firefox 121 (from the Debian package) still has the same issue with "out.pdf". That said, if I try again "ps2pdf temp.pdf out.pdf" with ghostscript 10.02.1~dfsg-1 (on my Debian/unstable machine), Firefox displays the new out.pdf document just like the poppler-based PDF viewers, with readable text (and with no warnings). So, if there was a bug in ghostscript, it is now "fixed". FYI, "qpdf --check temp.pdf" signals an error in the PDF file: WARNING: temp.pdf (object 11 0): object has offset 0 and "ps2pdf temp.pdf out.pdf" now fixes it silently. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
