From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Diego Nicola Barbato Subject: bug#34877: Ghostscript: Missing text when converting PDF to PS Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:05:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87pnqphfj5.fsf@GlaDOS.home> References: <87wokzhhgp.fsf@GlaDOS.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43503) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5UYF-0001pd-Uw for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:06:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5UYE-0003jr-UY for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:06:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5UYE-0003iU-KW for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:06:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h5UYE-0002G1-B2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:06:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87wokzhhgp.fsf@GlaDOS.home> (Diego Nicola Barbato's message of "Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:59:34 +0100") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 34877@debbugs.gnu.org Hello Guix, Diego Nicola Barbato writes: > Hello Guix, > > When converting certain PDF files to PostScript pdf2ps (from the > Ghostscript package) will print the following error messages: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete. > Output may be incorrect. > **** Error: File did not complete the page properly and may be damaged. > Output may be incorrect. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > The resulting file will be missing some (sometimes all) of the text. > > I have attached one such PDF, which I obtained from > https://www.ichkoche.at/?ctl=3Drecipe_pdf&recipe_id=3D3161, alongside the > files generated by running pdf2ps on both Guix System and, for > reference, Debian 9, where the conversion succeeds (even though they > provide the same version (9.26 (2018-11-20)) of Ghostscript). > > I have also attached the results of running =E2=80=98gsnd -dPDFDEBUG=E2= =80=99 on the > offending file. > > I run Guix System (commit: 0bd1498) on x86_64. > > Regards, > > Diego Unfortunately the original message did not make it to the mailing list because the attachments were too big. It did make it to debbugs, though, so the attachments should be available there (https://debbugs.gnu.org/34877). Regards, Diego