[gs-devel] Re: bug status report 04-03-2002

Fri Apr 5 18:49:36 PST 2002

Good work Ray and Raph.  What happened to Igor, Alex, and Jeong Kim?  I 
thought all three of these guys were supposed to contribute to bug 
fixing?  Hopefully starting next week we'll see some numbers next to their 
names.

At 09:12 AM 4/3/02 -0700, Jack Moffitt wrote:
>SUMMARY
>-------
>Total sourceforge bugs  :       115
>New sourceforge bugs    :       12
>Closed sourceforge bugs :       05
>New potential bugs      :       00
>Open potential bugs     :       01
>Fixed potential bugs    :       00
>New customer bugs       :       04
>Open customer bugs      :       13
>Fixed customer bugs     :       00
>New top-ten bugs        :       00
>Open top-ten bugs       :       04
>Fixed top-ten bugs      :       00
>
>Closers                 :       raph (3), rayjj (2)
>
>
>NEW BUGS
>--------
>
>#535836 - INTERNAL - Poor font rendering quality
>reported by: raph
>assigned: igorm
>
>The text font in regression test file bulletin.pdf is
>prone to dropouts, even at moderately high resolutions.
>At 300 dpi, the right stem of the 'v' glyph has a
>dropout immediately below the serif. Even at 600 dpi,
>the bottom bowl of the 'g' glyph has a small dropout.
>The font in question is Garamond-Light.
>
>#535997 - USER - ps2pdf produces incorrect A4 page size
>assign: ??
>
>When ghostscript-7.04 is compiled with -DA4 (to select
>the international standard office paper format), then
>the default page format produced by ps2pdf and pdfwrite
>is at the moment
>/MediaBox [0 0 597 842]
>The width (597) is wrong here (2 pt too large), because
>the ISO A4 format is
>210 mm = 210*72/25.4 pt = 595.27559 pt
>297 mm = 297*72/25.4 pt = 841.88976 pt
>Any correct PDF file formatted for A4 must have the
>Adobe standard A4 bounding box [0 0 595 842].
>
>#536863 - USER - Type11 layout bugs
>assign: igorm?
>
>Type11 (and I suspect Type42) incrementally loaded
>composite glyphs have the sub glyphs in the wrong
>position.
>A potential patch is included.
>
>#536877 - USER - Paper sizes wrong in gs_statd.ps
>assign: ??
>
>The file gs7.04/lib/gs_statd.ps defines macros for a large number of
>paper sizes, but unfortunately, many of them seem to be wrong by a few
>points.
>Is seems the sizes currently listed were generated by
>continuously dividing or multiplying the A4 point size
>as a starting point. Unfortunately, this amplifies the
>rounding error of the A4 point size and causes the
>point measures to drift away considerably from the
>official millimeter dimensions.
>
>#537066 - USER - TrueType-Fonts with costum Encoding
>
>User reports that Ghostscript cannot read pdf files with embedded
>truetype fonts which have a custom encoding.  A test file has been
>requested.
>
>#538033 - INTERNAL - need a check for // comments
>reported by: giles
>assigned: jackiem
>
>We should have a regression test for detecting // style comments in
>portable files.
>
>#538042 - CUSTOMER - /syntaxerror in --token--
>customer: #1
>assign: rayjj?
>
>The file George.pdf fails in ghostscript even though Acrobat Reader
>can display it fine.  The error ghostscript gives is /syntaxerror in
>--token--.
>
>#538055 - CUSTOMER - /undefinedresult in --currentpoint--
>customer: #440
>assign: rayjj?
>
>Test file 102.pdf fails with /undefinedresult in
>--currentpoint-- with current CVS HEAD. Acrobat Reader
>4 shows no errors.
>
>#538267 - USER - Problems with Media Box in PDF and PS interpreter
>assign: ??
>
>I'm using gs 7.04 on Windows NT 4.0 to convert PDF and
>PS files to TIFF G4.
>The PDF uses MediaBox, CropBox and Rotate commands.
>Using Export to tiff with Acrobat 5.0 the image is ok.
>Using Ghostscript adds a white area to my tiff file.
>The dimensons of the tiff file are the same as
>MediaBox.
>
>#538311 - USER - files missing from library archive
>assign: giles?
>
>When building a library archive (gslib.a) using
>unixlink.mak some object files are missing from the
>resulting library thus it is unusable. This is because
>the makefile uses the following ar command:
>$(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $(GSLIB_A) $(LIB_ARCHIVE_ALL)
>where $(LIB_ARCHIVE_ALL) includes $(DEVS_ALL) that
>contains .dev files instead of .o files.
>
>#538398 - CUSTOMER - bad pdf that reader tolerates
>assigned: rayjj
>customer: #870
>
>Test file kaercher.pdf renders fine under Acrobat
>reader, but fails under Ghostscript.  Ray has a patch in
>code-review for this bug.
>
>#538428 - CUSTOMER - empty appearance streams
>customer: #440
>assign: rayjj?
>
>The file EmptyAppearanceStream.pdf contains empty
>appearance streams that apparently cause ghostscript to
>fail when processing the file.
>
>OPEN POTENTIAL ISSUES
>---------------------
>#458780 - raph - Illustrator 9 transparency rangecheck
>
>OPEN CUSTOMER ISSUES
>--------------------
>#459647 - rayjj - Asian glyphs drawn incorrectly due to TT hints ignored
>#493348 - rayjj - Add image smoothing for better display
>#513905 - rayjj - cas.ps does not work with recent gs
>#520686 - raph - CMYK device gives neg. B&W (PDF 1.4)
>#535401 - igorm - euro glyph misplaced after pdfwrite
>
>OPEN TOP-TEN ISSUES
>-------------------
>#458775 - raph - Illustrator 9 shading/masking bugs
>#529578 - igorm - (pdfwrite) Bad font from pdfwrite - chars invisible
>#535366 - raph - /VMerror in .pushpdf14devicefilter
>#535752 - raph - incorrect pdf rendering with pdf1.4

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