[bug-gs] Fwd: ghostscript 7.07-25mdk mis-renders a certain OpenOffice-exported PDF

[Shlomi Fish]

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Subject: ghostscript 7.07-25mdk mis-renders a certain OpenOffice-exported PDF
Date: Thursday 16 December 2004 14:36
From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>
To: bug-gs at ghostscript.com

Hi all!

Please point your browsers at:

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=36725

Apparently, a certain mixed Hebrew/English document I wrote in OpenOffice.org
1.1.x and exported into PDF, generates a PDF that is rendered as mostly blank
using ghostscript 7.07-25mdk. (but is viewed OK with xpdf and Acrobat
Reader).

I was able to export a different mixed Hebrew/English document I have to a
 PDF which is handled fine by ghostscript.

The PDF is attached to the bug report:

http://xrl.us/ed7w

The OpenOffice guys have decided to close this bug, because they believed it
was a limitation of ghostscript and not something that OpenOffice does wrong.
[1] So I'm trying to solve it from this end. So my question is whether the is
there something wrong with the PDF (not well-formed enough), or is it just a
bug in this particular version of ghostscript that can be fixed by an
upgrade, or will be fixed in the future.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

[1] - if you ask me, they are wrong, because ghostscript is very commonly
 used to render PDFs that one cannot afford to ignore its limitations. It's
 like writing a C program that gcc mis-compiles.

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Shlomi Fish      shlomif at iglu.org.il
Homepage:        http://www.shlomifish.org/

Knuth is not God! It took him two days to build the Roman Empire.