Package: pdftops Version: poppler-utils Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
..................................................... Dear Maintainer, When using xpdf to view a certain file, my computer froze, and it needed to be restarted (by pressing the reset button). I filed Bug#710291 about xpdf. After restarting the computer, I used pdftops to convert the file to PostScript; when I viewed the PostScript file with gv (ghostview), the computer again froze. Again restarting the computer with the reset button, I converted the pdf file to PostScript using pdf2ps. This time I have no problem viewing the PostScript file (so far). The difference is that pdf2ps relies on Ghostscript, and not on poppler. In fact, the third line of the PostScript file converted by pdf2ps was %%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 905 (ps2write) while the second line of the Postscipt file produced by pdftops was %Produced by poppler pdftops version: 0.18.4 (http://poppler.freedesktop.org) Please also note that the latest "stable" release of poppler is 0.22.5. When I filed Bug#710291, I rated its severity as normal, though now I think I should have rated it as critical. The problem is that when my computer crashes, my stock trading program (Think or Swim) becomes unusable until I restore its "workspace" from backup. Think or Swim is totally unrelated to xpdf and pdftops; this is why I think the bug should be rated critical. Finally, using xpdf to view a pdf file instead of first converting the file to PostScript has advantages (gv cannot search for text in the file, while xpdf can). ..................................................... -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
