On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:17:10AM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: > > CUPS has own pdftops and old cupsys package included this. > This pdftops is derrived from pdftops in Xpdf (almost same), and I had > been affected many security hole problem by it :-) > So, I think there isn't so big size expansion by depending xpdf-utils.
Ok, this explains it. > > > - Would it be an idea to use the gs-esp package to handle pdf? If so, > > can you please consider it a wishlist? (I am kind of minimalist when > > it comes the packages ;-) > > As far as I know, gs-esp's PDF conversion is far from perfect, and it > is too hard to modify pdftops for using gs-esp. Well, it is derived from gnu-ghostscript which I (together with ghostview) use for pdf handling. Some features really don't work, but those are mainly interactive one and cannot be reprodruced on paper anyway. > Furthermore gs-esp needs many packages than xpdf-utils :-) Yes, but it is needed by cupsys anyway. Bye, Joerg
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