William – are you (and others) still working with a PS-based workflow? Why not
move ot something more modern (aka PDF)?
As evidenced by Apple removing support from their latest OS platforms – the
technology has not evolve with time and should really be left as a legacy
solution. It is not entirely secure and, of course, is proprietary (from my
company, but still).
I support the deprecation of tiff2ps…
Leonard
From: Tiff on behalf of William Bader
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 8:25 PM
To: Greg Troxel , Even Rouault
Cc: tiff@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Tiff] libtiff 4.6.0 is released
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> I am really unclear on whether there will be fallout from tools removal.
I have scripts that use tiff2ps. ImageMagick can convert tiffs to ps, but some
versions of ImageMagick shift or scale the image. tiff2ps works.
I think that with a ps-based workflow, tiff2ps is the best tools to convert
tiffs to eps.
I don't mind building tiff2ps from source, but I'm hoping that if something
breaks, patches to tiff2ps.c will be accepted.
William
From: Tiff on behalf of Greg Troxel
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 3:26 PM
To: Even Rouault
Cc: tiff@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Tiff] libtiff 4.6.0 is released
Even Rouault writes:
> I've promoted rc2 as the final 4.6.0 release.
Thanks for all your efforts on tiff.
> Read about this release at
> https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/releases/v4.6.0.html
>
> Pay attention to the following warning:
>
> This version removes a big number of utilities that have suffered
> from lack of maintenance over the years and were the source of
> various reported security issues. See "Removed functionality"
> below for the list of removed utilities. Starting with libtiff
> v4.6.0, their source code, at this time, will still be available
> in the source distribution, but they will no longer be built by
> default, and issues related to them will no longer be accepted in
> the libtiff bug tracker. The only remaining supported TIFF tools
> are tiffinfo, tiffdump, tiffcp, tiffset and tiffsplit.
Because of where pkgsrc is on its quarterly release schedule -- going
into freeze in just under 6 days for the next branch -- I have decided
to defer updating until just after the branch. This is an FYI not a
complaint; release cycles are just like this.
I don't see any urgent security fixes, but please let me know if I read
that wrong. If so, it may be better to take the pain during the branch.
I am really unclear on whether there will be fallout from tools removal.
Again not a complaint; I just don't like surprises. My expectation is
very little to maybe none, and that if so it will be run time not
build/install/package time. So if anyone updates tiff in a packaging
system, and does or doesn't find issues, I would appreciate a note here
from fellow packagers. I'll post myself after updating.
Thanks,
Greg
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