[gs-devel] bug status report 05-15-2002

[Jack Moffitt]

SUMMARY
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Total sourceforge bugs	:	91
New sourceforge bugs	:	09
Closed sourceforge bugs	:	08
New potential bugs	:	00
Open potential bugs	:	01
Fixed potential bugs	:	00
New customer bugs	:	01
Open customer bugs	:	12
Fixed customer bugs	:	00
New top-ten bugs	:	01
Open top-ten bugs	:	06
Fixed top-ten bugs	:	00

Closers 		:	rayjj (1), jeong (1), lpd (3), giles (1),
				jackiem (2)

NEW BUGS
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#553812 - CUSTOMER - Extra >> not handled adequately
customer: #580
assigned: rayjj

The test file contains a spurious >> following an
endstream before endobj. Acrobat handles this problem
silently.

#554076 - USER - missing characters
assign: igorm?

When converting pdf files with a maximum number
of columns per line , at least 2 columns are missing
after conversion or printing.  Waiting for postscript test file
(resulting pdf already submitted).

#554323 - USER - negative-Y bounding box problem
assign: rayjj?

I was sent an EPS image that was generated with
Illustrator 8.0. When I try to view it in Gimp or in
ggv, I can't make it show up in such a way that the
whole image is visiable: the bottom 20% of the image is
always clipped by the page edge. This seems to be
because of this:
%%BoundingBox: 176 -106 538 256
and/or this:
%%PageOrigin:84 -291

#554398 - USER - bitmap quality reduced by ps2pdf
assign: igorm?

When converting a postscript file which contains
bitmap images to pdf, the bitmaps in the resulting
pdf have far worse quality than the ones in the
postscript document.

#555496 - INTERNAL - (pdfwrite) wrong substituted CIDFontName
reported by: igorm
assigned: igorm

User has CID font HeiseiMin-W3, and contents of cidfmap
are:
/Ryumin-Light /HeiseiMin-W3 ;
If I create a PDF from the following PS,
the name of embedded font becomes "Ryumin-Light",
which I think should be "HeiseiMin-W3", since
embedded font is HeiseiMin-W3 and is not Ryumin-Light. 

#555657 - TOPTEN - Circles rendered as polygons in PDF
customer: #150
assign: rayjj?

In the test file CC7_24.pdf, Ghostscript renders the
circle shapes at the bottom of the page as polygons.
These are circles in Acrobat Reader.

#555799 - USER - Pagemaker 6.5 Files Always Fail in API
assign: ghostgum?

User claims different results for API functions gsapi_run_string_continue and
gsapi_fun_file.  Russel suspects the user's line reading code is at fault as
the postscript files contain very long lines.


OPEN POTENTIAL ISSUES
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#458780 - raph - Illustrator 9 transparency rangecheck

OPEN CUSTOMER ISSUES
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#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)
#542664 - rayjj - gs creates very large temp file
#552949 - igorm - pdfwrite produces bigger pdf than adobe

OPEN TOP-TEN ISSUES
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#458775 - raph - Illustrator 9 shading/masking bugs
#529578 - lpd - (pdfwrite) Bad font from pdfwrite - chars invisible
#535366 - raph - /VMerror in .pushpdf14devicefilter
#535752 - raph - incorrect pdf rendering with pdf1.4
#549307 - dancoby - Problem with bogus Photoshop tint trans.