<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Hi Thomas, I would be interested to see your patch. The code in my "old" patches has been working well, or at least, I haven't had any complaints since I installed it in August 2011. I am using -level1sep to make EPS files for CMYK separations.  I am not doing any spot separations from EPS files generated from PDFs. My software is capable of making spot separations from EPS files, but no one has sent me a PDF with spot color, so I don't have a way to test if pdftops will do what I need. Regards, William <div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:46:55 +0100 From: Thomas.Freitag@kabelmail.de To: poppler@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [poppler] poppler pdftops regressions <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"> Am 24.02.2012 22:24, schrieb William Bader: <blockquote cite="mid:BLU157-W591A11972526A35B8A0C0EC46A0@phx.gbl"> <style> .ExternalClass .ecx.hmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;} </style> <div dir="ltr"> Hi Thomas, I am working on updating my "old" patches.  I hope to post them tonight. >Didn't think that still someone use level1 option :-) Aren't that printers been already in a museum? I am building pages from eps files produced by pdftops, and I need -level1sep to get software color separations to come out right. -level2sep sometimes generates color that the software can't separate. </div> </blockquote> Oh, I see. Separation of PostScript is not a quite easy issue. And I think, there are some problems in the use of setcustomcolor and customcolorimage in the original xpdf code. As far as I remember, a collegue of mine gave me some hints in 2007 and I uploaded a patch to xpdf to make ps output separable which was never inserted. But because PostScript is not my favorite subject, I didn't care. If You're interested, I can look if I can find it again, adapt it to the actual code and we can work together to get it running. Cheers, Thomas <blockquote cite="mid:BLU157-W591A11972526A35B8A0C0EC46A0@phx.gbl"> <div dir="ltr"> Regards, William <div>> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:33:03 +0100 > From: <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Thomas.Freitag@kabelmail.de">Thomas.Freitag@kabelmail.de</a> > To: <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > Subject: Re: [poppler] poppler pdftops regressions > > Am 23.02.2012 23:18, schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > > El Dijous, 23 de febrer de 2012, a les 14:36:29, William Bader va escriure: > >> Hi, > > Hi > > > >> I am using a 32-bit i686 version of Fedora 14 Linux. > >> I copied poppler from git earlier today (Feb 23, 2012), and noticed two > >> problems. > >> > >> pdftops -level1 does not seem to handle bitmaps well. > >> My test files 020_ReadMe_Ghent_Output_Patch.pdf (Ghent Output Suite > >> document), bug-poppler27482-precision.pdf (Herbstfest bei MEIFORT ad), > >> elp-B83378-gray.pdf, and testimagemask.pdf (real estate ad with photos of > >> six agents at the bottom) showed like checkerboards. The size is what I > >> expect, and they don't get errors. I suspect that the problem is a change > >> in the image code in the pdftops prolog. > >> > >> pdftops -binary no longer has much effect. > >> It is present PSOutput.cc in the recent tarball release of 0.18.4, but about > >> half of the code is missing in the git version. Was that intentional, or > >> did a patch get applied to a branch that was not later merged? > > The patch was merged correctly but Thomas smashed your changes when merging > > xpdf303 changes and we did not realize > Sorry if I missed something. I'll have a look at it at the weekend, I'm > anyway working on a patch for CJK fonts in PSOutput. Are the "old" > patches from William available? It's probably easier to look into the > patches and see what is missing now (of course together with comparing > code between tarball and git). Also it would be nice to have > elp-B83378-gray.pdf and testimagemask.pdf for testing, the other I have. > Didn't think that still someone use level1 option :-) Aren't that > printers been already in a museum? > > Thomas > > > >> Should I open bug reports for each of these issues? > > Please, and if you can give patches to fix them even better :-) > > > > Albert > > > >> William > > _______________________________________________ > > poppler mailing list > > <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > > <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> > > > > . > > > > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> </div> </div> <fieldset class="ecxmimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <pre>_______________________________________________ poppler mailing list <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> </pre> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list poppler@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</div> </div></body> </html>