Hi Deri, I have what appears to be a working build, now; (see below).
On 11/10/17 10:09, Keith Marshall wrote: > On 09/10/17 23:44, Deri James wrote: >> The attached archive holds some samples of two types of pdfs, either >> produced by gropdf or produced by cairo software. Inside the two >> subdirectories there are three types of files:- >> >> *-structure.pdf (these illustrate the structure of the pdf with >> similar name) >> >> *.pdf (these are the pdfs to run against psbb) >> >> *.mm (a program called "freemind" can open these files, they also >> illustrate the structure, but you can interactively click to >> open/close object nodes). >> >> In the gropdf directory the gropdf.pdf file is the one having >> problems, and the gs.pdf is the same file after running through >> ghostscript, which psbb handles perfectly. Both files load fine in >> acroread, which can be quite picky when it comes to syntax, although >> the probability is that gropdf is not quite standard enough. > > [...snip... fix identified for gropdf.pdf issue ...snip...] > >> The cairo directory contains two examples created by inkscape, psbb >> has a big problem with these. > > [...snip...] > > I have an idea how to fix this too ... > >> I hope these are helpful to you, sorry for being a nuisance. >> Integrating pdf bounding boxes into groff would be a big benefit. >> These are the MediaBoxes which would be expected. > > Thanks. These are helpful to me, (but obviously not to others, unless > you're willing to distribute them). Regardless, I'll leave the analysis > here, for reference. > >> [derij@pip Samples]$ pdfbb Cairo/*.pdf gropdf/*.pdf >> Processing 'Cairo/gropdf-pdf-structure.pdf' >> Cairo/gropdf-pdf-structure.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,842,595 >> Processing 'Cairo/gs-pdf-structure.pdf' >> Cairo/gs-pdf-structure.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,842,595 >> Processing 'Cairo/SJP.pdf' >> Cairo/SJP.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,114.146561,115.235786 >> Processing 'Cairo/SJP-structure.pdf' >> Cairo/SJP-structure.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,842,595 >> Processing 'Cairo/SJP-Whole.pdf' >> Cairo/SJP-Whole.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,210.231384,138.239899 >> Processing 'Cairo/SJP-Whole-structure.pdf' >> Cairo/SJP-Whole-structure.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,842,595 >> Processing 'gropdf/gropdf.pdf' >> gropdf/gropdf.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,612,792 >> Processing 'gropdf/gropdf-pdf-structure.pdf' >> gropdf/gropdf-pdf-structure.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,842,595 >> Processing 'gropdf/gs.pdf' >> gropdf/gs.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,612,792 >> Processing 'gropdf/gs-pdf-structure.pdf' >> gropdf/gs-pdf-structure.pdf: MediaBox: 0,0,842,595 With my fixes applied, and built with DEBUGGING off, I see: $ ./psbb Samples/*/*.pdf .../Cairo/gropdf-pdf-structure.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(842,595) .../Cairo/gs-pdf-structure.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(842,595) .../Cairo/SJP.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(114,115) .../Cairo/SJP-structure.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(842,595) .../Cairo/SJP-Whole.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(210,138) .../Cairo/SJP-Whole-structure.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(842,595) .../gropdf/gropdf.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(612,792) .../gropdf/gropdf-pdf-structure.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(842,595) .../gropdf/gs.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(612,792) .../gropdf/gs-pdf-structure.pdf: bounding box = (0,0)..(842,595) which, allowing for rounding to integers -- as required by the internal representation of gtroff's .psbb registers -- seems to be in agreement with your expected results. -- Regards, Keith.
