Bug#354506: xpdf-utils: pdftops creates postscript with leading '%' that confuses poster

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xpdf-utils Version: 3.01-6 Severity: normal I created an EPS file from a PDF file[1] (large download) using pdftops -eps FortOrdFairMap.pdf, and then tried to run it through poster. However, the generated EPS uses some clever tricks to include the bitmap portions of the document, which

Bug#354506: xpdf-utils: pdftops creates postscript with leading '%' that confuses poster

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:51:43PM -0800, Andrew Pimlott wrote: Meanwhile, I'll look at fixing poster to pass through comments. Hmm, poster claims that it is necessary to remove the DSC comments from the original document: those (DSC) lines sometimes disturb proper previewing of the result with

Bug#354506: xpdf-utils: pdftops creates postscript with leading '%' that confuses poster

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Hmm, despite the discouraging comment in poster, when I modified it to pass through all comments, the result worked perfectly in gv. However, I would rather not propose that as a solution except as a last resort. At least I have a nice 100MB file to send to the printer Monday! Andrew -- To