-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Helge,
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:08:40PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: >On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:05:04PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: >> I stumbled over "dumphint". Given that it has not man page (which it >> should, c.f. Debian Policy), I wanted to write a man page. However, on >> every pdf-file I tried (created by a variety of different programms) >> it fails to work. >> When I reverse the last two arguments, i.e., >> gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dSAFER -dDELAYSAFER -- /tmp/ifer-l.pdf "dumphint.ps" >> then gs suceeds: >> he...@thirtyto:~$ echo $? >> 0 >> >> However, there is no output (file, stdout) at all. Running under strace, >> I see that *all* files are opened O_RDONLY, hence nothing will be >> written. > >Same again. Looking at upstream SVN, that script was recently (january 4th 2009) changed to use full path to dumphint.ps: exec "$GS_EXECUTABLE" -q -dNODISPLAY $OPTIONS -- "`dirname $0`/dumphint.ps" "$1" Perhaps that helps? Either try manually, or grab the current package in experimental. >> So either dumphint needs to be documented (if you give me some >> information, I can write you a man page) and possibly fixed (as the >> current syntax as suggested by the help output simply does not work) >> or if nothing else requires >> it, it should be removed. If it only has some internal use, then it >> should IMHO not be in a user visible namespace (i.e., not in the >> default path). It would be wonderful if you would help write that manpage. Seems its purpose is documented in the ps file: % Linearized PDF hints generated by Acrobat suite seem to deviate from % the published specification. % % /P (page offset hint table) key in hint stream is not generated by % Adobe products. The key is no longer required in PDF 1.5. % % Per-page items 4 and 5 of the page offset hint table start from 1st % page rather than 2nd page as the spec claims. % % All array entries start from the new byte boundary. Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkooWMwACgkQn7DbMsAkQLjO2ACgiyLpk4GF5+Agb+lJwW0G/bq2 K68AnRcM4O2AZ5qq9YOZH2Pr/OVnIVlj =Oqk1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
