Hi Joel,
thanks a lot for your help on bibisecting the issue. Yes, the problem
must have occured for the fist time somewhere between 4.1 and 4.2Beta (I
assume). To not spam the qa list, I will ask you for the steps in an
email to your email address.
Additionally, it would be very helpful if someone could test whether the
bug 81592 actually occurs on very recent Linux systems, e.g. Ubuntu
14.04 or new versions of Fedora, Debian,... They have a newer pstoedit
version which maybe does the trick. Thanks.
Best,
Gerry
Am 27.07.2014 18:24, schrieb Joel Madero:
Hi Gerry,
If you're running Linux do you mind trying to bibisect the issue. I
can walk you through the steps or you can read them here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/HowToBibisect
It helps a lot to get us closer to a solution.
Best,
Joel
Best,
Joel
On 07/27/2014 09:17 AM, Gerry T. wrote:
Dear all,
LibreOffice is facing a regression with regards to the
quality/rendering of EPS graphics in LO 4.2&4.3
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81592).
While the rendering quality of EPS in LO 4.0/4.1 was 'production
quality', the rendering in 4.2 & 4.3 regressed and is unusable for
publishing. The issue exists in rendering on screen, printing, PDF
export as well as with existing documents or newly inserted EPS graphics.
From my viewpoint, it is a terrible bug, because the graphics of
statistical software (Stata, SPSS) always showed best quality when
exported as EPS and inserted in LibreOffice. All existing documents
and prepared EPS graphics are not really usable anymore on 4.2.x and
later. Hence, I am stuck with LO 4.1.x which is EOL and less
performant and stable (and is missing a few important features) than
4.2.x and 4.3.x. Hence, I seriously hope that this bug can be fixed
for the last version of the 4.2 line, which is version 4.2.7.
I approach the QA list for this, because the bug has been tested and
confirmed so far only on Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.04 and I would
like to kindly ask you to perform tests on EPS quality with new
distribution versions, such as Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10Beta as well as
Fedora, Debian or others. For the generation of the EPS
representation in LibreOffice, the library /pstoedit/ is used and it
is possible that newer versions of pstoedit give better output.
I would be glad if you could try to reproduce the bug following the
steps in the bug description. Please also try the pstoedit command
and instructions as given by Caolan in comment 4.
I hope that someone finds a solution for this regression bug.
Thanks a lot,
Gerry
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