Bug#777699: New maintainer's proposal

2016-11-20 Thread Sphinx Pinastri
I'd like to take over the maintenance of psutils package. The bugs filed against psutils have been sitting in the tracker for several years already. I believe that I can do better. I'm familiar with PostScript, C, and Perl and eagar to start contributing to free software. Regards, Peter

Bug#704112: EPSCrop is for EPS

2016-11-19 Thread Sphinx Pinastri
Every PS file should set the correct page size using <>setpagedevice. The %%BoundingBox comment is highly unreliable, poorly defined, and often wrong. if you have a special batch of files that depend on %%BoundingBox, they should be preprocessed to convert this information to PostScript.

Bug#681843: Spurious \r in ps2epsi.ps

2016-11-19 Thread Sphinx Pinastri
First of all, PostScript can have \r, \n, or \r\n line endings or any combination thereof. So the blame should be directed to gv, rather than ps2epsi. Yet, inconsistent line endings look strange. The original gs has \n everywhere; it never had this bug. Somebody has introduced it in the

Bug#616054: Fwd: Annotation to transparency conversion

2016-11-19 Thread Sphinx Pinastri
Please disregard the following message that was sent to this address. It belongs to a different bug report. -- Forwarded message -- From: Sphinx Pinastri <sphinx.pinas...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 10:50 AM Subject: Annotation to transparency conversion T

Bug#616054: Annotation to transparency conversion

2016-11-19 Thread Sphinx Pinastri
Ghostscript merges annotations into the page content and simulates the highlighting with transparency effects. If the viewer doesn't support transparency, the highlighted area looks obscured, as reported. Ghostscript should preserve annotations when it generates PDF, but flatten and simulate