Bug 65798

Summary:	produces PDFs that Acrobat Reader 5.05 can't read properly
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
Component:	ghostscript	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	wtogami
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Description Tammy Fox 2002-05-31 19:27:29 UTC

I am using the following command to produce a PDF from a PS file:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a5 \
-sOutputFile=foo.pdf foo.ps

Some people have said that they can't read the PDF under Windows 2000
using Acrobat Reader 5.05 (#65753). The link given in the other bug:
http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/bug-gs/2001-July/000535.html
suggests that ghostscript should not write /Content for blank pages.

Would this fix the problem? The funny thing is that I tried to open
the PDF files in Acrobat Reader 5.05 in Windows ME, and I didn't get
the error messages.

Comment 1 Tammy Fox 2002-05-31 20:05:36 UTC

FWIW, I downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.05 for Linux, and it opens and prints
the PDF correctly. I also tried Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.05 on Windows ME, and it
opens and prints the PDF correctly. Maybe it is just a Windows 2000 issue?

Comment 2 Warren Togami 2002-06-03 21:20:03 UTC

I had a similar problem in Red Hat 7.2 with Win2000 not being able to read a any
KDE generated PDF's, but only after I manually installed hpijs.  Uninstalled
hpijs and it worked fine.

(hpijs is the print drivers for HP inkjet printers, now included by default in
Red Hat 7.3.)

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-06-10 16:57:54 UTC

We can reproduce this problem in-house with W2000.

Comment 4 Warren Togami 2002-06-10 17:39:27 UTC

It is in fact hpijs related?

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2002-06-11 07:20:16 UTC

I don't think so.  The /Content-for-blank-pages explanation seems more likely. 
 
But it's strange that it's just W2000 that's affected.

Comment 6 Tammy Fox 2002-06-11 22:13:00 UTC

From http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/History7.htm:

Fixes problems:
	- Empty pages included a Contents entry whose value was an empty
array: the spec allows this, and AR3 and 4 accept it, but AR5 rejects it.
(gdevpdf.c [1.34]: 2001/06/29 06:52:13 lpd)

It looks like the latest version corrects this error.

Comment 7 Tammy Fox 2002-07-04 22:59:03 UTC

Can someone with Windows 2000 using Adobe Acrobat version 5.05 try to view
http://people.redhat.com/tfox/rhl-cg-en.pdf? I produced it with ghostscript
7.05, which is supposed to fix the problem.

Comment 8 Warren Togami 2002-07-05 06:03:06 UTC

Confirmed.  I can read it on Windows 2000 with Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 9/24/2001.

Comment 9 Tim Waugh 2002-07-05 07:58:36 UTC

Great.