Your message dated Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:54:26 -0500
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and subject line Re: ghostscript: Conversions from PDF to a raster format
renders a note icon where annotation metadata is positioned
has caused the Debian Bug report #1122579,
regarding ghostscript: Conversions from PDF to a raster format renders a note
icon where annotation metadata is positioned
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Package: ghostscript
Version: 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
A PDF source was fed into gs using this command:
$ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -r204x196 -sPAPERSIZE=a4
-dFIXEDMEDIA -sOutputFile=noisy.tiff "$pdf_src"
That command is for producing a FAX image from a PDF. The source PDF
contains annotations. A proper interactive PDF tool shows a note icon
wherever an annotation is anchored. The icon’s purpose is to designate
a position where the note applies and to give users a way to trigger
the metadata to display.
It makes no sense to render an icon of a note onto a raster conversion
of a PDF. The tiffg3 cannot support annotation metadata. But in the
above example, noisy.tiff shows those note icons obviously with no way
to access the content of the notes. So the icons should be absent from
the output.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.12
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (990, 'oldstable-updates'), (990, 'oldstable-security'), (990,
'stable'), (990, 'oldstable'), (500, 'oldoldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u13
ii libgs10 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8
ghostscript recommends no packages.
ghostscript suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:47:58 +0100 Manny <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It makes no sense to render an icon of a note onto a raster conversion
> of a PDF. The tiffg3 cannot support annotation metadata.
I've consulted with upstream and learned that this is, indeed, by design, so
this is not a bug.
I further learned that there are ways to control annotations, if one doesn't
like the current rendering they may be able to alter it, see here:
https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Use.html
and look for ShowAnnots and ShowAnnotTypes.
Regards,
-Steve
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