[poppler] poppler pdftops regressions

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Feb 24 10:12:02 PST 2012


El Divendres, 24 de febrer de 2012, a les 09:33:03, Thomas Freitag va 
escriure:
> 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? 

Sure https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34003 or 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=c3470145f95791167c19a438934a923eab8a93cf

> 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?

William sent a patch for the level1 image regressionwhich i'm testing at the 
moment.

Albert

> 
> 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
> > 
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