On Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:52:04 GMT Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > > On Solaris 10, Perl 5.8.4 is in use. On that ancient version of Perl, > > Deri's latest gropdf(1) endianness fix is ineffective because support > > for "L<" appears to be broken in unpack(3p). > > [...] > > > I don't think we should attempt to work around that ancient Perl bug. > > I mean, srsly, Perl 5.8.4 in 2018? > > I can't judge if it would be easy or not to work around this problem (I > let Deri comment on that), but I agree that it's probably not worth > spending too much time on it.
I'm sure there are alternative workarounds, but I'm wondering if the ghostscript fonts are equally ancient, I'm not certain, but I believe at some time in the past the fonts were the .pfa type and so are not binary and a different code path is used in gropdf.
