[Bug 678222] New: texlive-2010 / pdflatex / pdfopt (ghostscript) / PDF Ver. 1.5 oddity
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222#c0 Summary: texlive-2010 / pdflatex / pdfopt (ghostscript) / PDF Ver. 1.5 oddity Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Factory Platform: x86 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: madworm_de.novell@spitzenpfeil.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-3.1 Firefox/3.6.13 Welcome to Hell... I've just recently upgraded my laptop to 11.4. My Desktop is thankfully still running 11.3 and will stay that way it seems. I'm using Kile + texlive (pdflatex) to write a somewhat lengthy document (>200 pages with lots of graphics etc.) With openSUSE 11.3 / texlive-2009 everything worked just fine. Pdflatex per default produced PDF-1.4 documents, which is important. Now 11.4 comes with texlive-2010, which produces PDF-1.5 files per default, but can be forced to spit out 1.4 as well (by adding "\pdfminorversion 4" in the preamble btw.). Old workflow: a) compile all of the stuff as usual (bibtex, makeindex...) b) take the resulting pdf-1.4 (which works everywhere as far as I can tell) and use 'pdfopt' (part of the ghostscript package) to 'linearize' the pdf for better viewing perfromance. c) use 'pdfinfo' to show some info about the file d) test it with old viewers on winblows (acrobat pro 6.0) - works. On my updated laptop: If I take the exact same files (I use GIT, so I can be sure) and run my compile script on 11.4 I get problems as such: a) 'pdfinfo' complains that the PDF is probably corrupt (xref table...), but is able to recover. Same is true for okular and recent acroread. b) acrobat 6.0 pro (winblows) just crashes all the timie. It tells me that the pdf is irreparably corrupt. I tried to test certain passages of said document (images), but I can't pin it down to single files. Several combinations of disabling/enabling them are good, others are bad. What I've found out so far: a) if I skip the step with 'pdfopt' everything is sane and works (with PDF-1.5) b) if I force pdflatex to spit out PDF-1.4, running the optimizer does no harm as well. Most of my graphs were created with gnuplot/svg and postprocessed with inkscape and exported as pdfs. I can try to put together a minimal test case, but that will take some time. Lots of work to do. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. pdfopt applied on a large (with images) PDF-1.5 = corrupt xref table in PDF 2. pdfopt applied on a large (with images) PDF-1.4 = fine -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222#c zj jia <zjjia@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |zjjia@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |werner@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222#c1 --- Comment #1 from Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> 2011-03-17 08:30:12 UTC --- Please report also upstream at tex-live@tug.org -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222#c2 --- Comment #2 from robert spitzenpfeil <madworm_de.novell@spitzenpfeil.org> 2011-03-17 09:59:44 UTC --- Done. A quick work around is to use 'qpdf' as optimizer. It is also available for 11.4. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222#c3 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |werner@novell.com AssignedTo|werner@novell.com |jsmeix@novell.com --- Comment #3 from Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> 2011-05-12 12:47:28 UTC --- pdfopt is part of ghostscript -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222#c4 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |AxelKoellhofer@web.de --- Comment #4 from Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> 2011-05-12 12:55:43 UTC --- As workaround I suggest the usage of \usepackage{pdf14} to switch the PDF version down if pdfopt is used afterwards. It should be noted that I do not change the default of pdf(La)Tex to PDF 1.4. The package 'qpdf' (see http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/) is not part of 11.4 even if an unoffical package exist. I'm not sure if we're allowed to add qpdf to any openSUSE or SLES distribution as in provides encrypt/decrypt options for pdf files. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222#c5 --- Comment #5 from robert spitzenpfeil <madworm_de.novell@spitzenpfeil.org> 2011-05-12 19:23:58 UTC --- Hmmm. That package doesn't seem to be part of the standard installation on my system. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678222#c6 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |UPSTREAM --- Comment #6 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2011-06-17 07:23:37 UTC --- I am afraid, my knowledge is totally insufficient to further analyze and debug (or even fix) such issues. I assume that the issue is not caused by openSUSE in particular because I notice several issues regarding PDF in the Ghostscript upstream bugzilla http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ Therefore I close it as "UPSTREAM" according to https://bugzilla.novell.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status ---------------------------------------------------------------- The bug exists upstream. "Responsibility for a bug is said to lie upstream when it is not caused through the distribution's porting efforts." ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Spitzenpfeil, I would appreciate it very much if you report the issue directly to upstream to have a direct communication between you and the upstream authors of the software. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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