Package: pdftops
Version: poppler-utils
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
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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).
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Debian Release: 7.1
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