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Robin_Watts marcosw: I've hit a problem with the cluster.00:09.44 
  When I clusterpush mupdf, it fails with lots of timeouts.00:10.02 
  but I can't see WHAT files timedout, which makes it hard for me to reproduce locally.00:10.19 
  Is there any way we could improve the logging a bit?00:10.28 
floam is this as good as it gets on IRC to ask questions about PCL, GhostPCL?01:28.50 
  I've got some PCL data I can send to an HP printer, and it prints in one page all good. After the last text visible stuff prints, in the data there is ␛(s0P␛(s10H01:31.21 
  followed by a form feed, then decimal 2601:31.28 
  when I try to convert it to a PDF with pcl6, I get a second page, with a right arrow on it. Is that expected, or a bug with something, or me using the tool incorrectly?01:31.59 
  I see decimal 26 can be a right arrow, but I also thought PCL printers discard any data not trailed by a FF?01:33.21 
  hm, maybe a hit? Just tried an older version of the interpreter and now I get:01:46.55 
  glyph index c0000000 out of range01:46.59 
  that supposed form feed, 0x0C is actually 0xC0 for some reason perhaps?01:47.53 
  s/hit/hint/01:48.09 
  hm, random windows-only tool "PCLReader" I found seems to display it correctly01:56.24 
  should mention, output is from a circa-1990 DOS app. Maybe it's something to do with PCL just not being perfectly backwards compatible01:58.54 
aksr is it possible to enable 'document rights' via ghostscript?05:24.32 
  document==pdf05:25.27 
  rights: hightlight, underline, comment05:26.01 
floam 26 is 0x1A, guess it's an EOD getting put on the end of the file there that shouldn't exist but printers don't mind.06:40.23 
aksr floam: do you know is there a way via ghostscript to give permission to annotatte or comment pdf? i want to highlight/comment/underline via other pdf reader ..06:44.50 
  *annotate06:45.15 
  i know it's possible to annotate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4427034/add-comments-to-pdf-files-automagically-with-regular-expressions06:45.39 
floam I don't know much about ghostscript06:45.45 
aksr i want just to elevate permissions ..06:46.07 
  too bad :)06:46.11 
floam aksr: maybe this helps http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4345/remove-security-limitations-from-pdf-documents-using-ghostscript06:56.25 
aksr floam: yes, i know for this way, thank you, but it doesn't allow commenting07:01.03 
  it removes copying restriction, page extraction07:01.20 
  printing etc07:01.42 
  but it doesn't set 07:02.15 
  permission to comment07:02.27 
kens floam I am not a PCL expert, but...08:00.01 
  PCL is not even compatible between current PCL pritners, never mind backwards compatible.08:00.21 
  You can ignore the old warning about glyph index out of range.08:00.34 
  That warning was removed, it is useful when PostScript is the input, but not when PCL is.08:00.54 
  First thing to try is rendering your PCL file to a bitmap format, rather than to PDF.08:01.58 
  If the bitmap isn't what you expect then you know that the PDF is not going to be.08:02.20 
  This will also tell you whether the problem lies in the PCL interpreter or the PDF writer. You can then go to http://bugs.ghostscript.com and raise a bug report08:02.59 
  You can attach your file there, without that we can't comment much on your problem.08:03.21 
  aksr if you read our logs, I don't understand what your problem is.08:03.50 
sebras tor8 Robin_Watts: there are two patches sitting on sebras/master08:12.12 
floam kens: OK, thanks.08:30.10 
kens NP08:30.17 
floam kens: Well, when I run it with png16m I only get the first page like I should. However I just ran a completely unrelated multiple-page pcl I found on the internet through the the same process and also just got a PNG of the first page...08:38.53 
kens Did you set OutputFile=out%d.png ?08:39.16 
  SO that it writes each page to a spearate file08:39.28 
  separate08:39.32 
  Otherwise all the pages get concatenated into a single file, which doesn't work for PNG08:39.54 
floam ah, no, thank you. Just figured they'd stack up or do something. Thanks08:40.48 
kens NP08:41.00 
floam yeah, it behaves the same way without pdfwrite on my buggy PCLs. But I'm still not really certain it's a bug with ghostpcl... Really seems more likely this 22-year old utility was doing something against the rules or is breaking due to all the emulation magic going on.08:45.17 
kens Its hard to say.08:45.32 
  For me anyway08:45.36 
  I'm not a PCL expert08:45.42 
  However, if it behaves the same rendering, then its not the PDF writer, its the interpreter. You could open a bug report and someone who understands PCL better than me will look at it and give a reply08:46.20 
floam I could probably just use that -d{First|Last}Page option and rip off that last page, assuming this behavior sticks around. Or see if there's any way I can try to detect the situation and do it then.08:46.28 
  OK. I'll give that a shot.08:46.40 
kens THe reply might be 'yes, that's a broken piece of PCL' of course... :-)08:47.01 
floam http://ghostscript.com/~tor/down/ seems to tease that there are some OS X binaries zipped up somewhere, but I can't seem to find them, is that the case?08:52.31 
Robin_Watts floam: That's an old page that shouldn't be there.08:59.41 
  It was, I believe, one possible design we were considering for http://www.ghostscript.com/download/09:00.22 
floam yeah, started to figure something like that. Google was pretty sure these files never existed.09:00.49 
kens anyone got the URL marcosw posted about meeting dates ?09:36.51 
Robin_Watts kens: just a tick.09:43.51 
  http://www.doodle.com/tbe3qvutgk9rqnaa09:44.14 
kens THanks Robin09:44.27 
  Someone needs to make sure Miles sees it :-)09:45.11 
Robin_Watts It went to "everybody"09:54.13 
kens ye all10:44.07 
  bye10:44.10 
Robin_Watts hEY marcosw15:56.46 
  Did you see my comment earlier about cluster logging for timeouts?15:56.59 
aksr is it possible to enable commenting on pdf using ghostscript?19:02.21 
  where to find info on -dPermissions?19:12.27 
marcosw_ Robin_Watts: yes, I'm fixing it now.21:33.38 
  Robin_Watts: it's not pretty but the email that is sent when a timeoutFail occurs now includes filenames and command lines.22:11.03 
malc_ Robin_Watts: hello, around?22:53.33 
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