Bug 1161739 - bug in ghostscript v9.14 causes a problem with hyperlinks when using dvips (LaTeX) - request backport of v9.15
Summary: bug in ghostscript v9.14 causes a problem with hyperlinks when using dvips (L...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ghostscript
Version: 20
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1145482
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-07 18:15 UTC by Randy Yates
Modified: 2015-04-02 12:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-04-02 12:00:55 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
latex test file demonstrating the bug in ghostscript v9.14 (433 bytes, text/x-matlab)
2014-11-07 18:15 UTC, Randy Yates
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Description Randy Yates 2014-11-07 18:15:11 UTC
Created attachment 955040 [details]
latex test file demonstrating the bug in ghostscript v9.14

Description of problem:
See summary.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.14

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a latex .tex file with /usepackage{hyperref} (see attached file test.tex)
2.run the following commands

  latex test
  latex test
  dvipdf test.dvi

3. open the resulting pdf file in adobe acrobat: acroread test.pdf

4. click on the "link test" link.

Actual results:

Position does not move to the specified link.

Expected results:

Position would move to page 2 at the link test section.

Additional info:

I'm using TeXLive 2013 (?) but the problem should be reproducible with the LaTeX in the repo.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2014-11-10 11:42:28 UTC
We need ghostscript-9.15 in F-21 before it can get into F-20. I'll start on that.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2015-04-02 12:00:55 UTC
Next problem is that ghostscript-9.15 requires openjpeg 2.1.x. Looks like this isn't worth doing before EOL.


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