[tex-live] texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xltxtra/xltxtra.pdf

Frank Küster frank at kuesterei.ch
Sat Jan 20 13:33:05 CET 2007


Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>>     xpdf's pdftops is not half as picky as pdf2ps
>> 
>> That could indicate bugs in pdf2ps, rather than in the pdf files ...
>
> I pored over the gs changelogs (the HistoryN.htm files) and the
> authors seem very careful about compliance with PDF standards.  It has
> many entries of the form "add workaround for buggy pdf file that
> Acroread silently accepts."  So I lean toward trusting gs (but your
> point is still valid).

Also, gs 8.01 accepted the file without a problem, 8.5? complained.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)


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