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| navi_se | Does anyone have a hack to split the llpp.conf file into two? A default part and a "keep the pdf page" part? | 09:56.40 |
| | I use git to sync em, but the second part should not be shared across computer | 09:57.09 |
| malc_ | navi_se: use -c and different configs then | 09:57.23 |
| navi_se | alias llpp=llpp -c llpp1.conf ? | 09:58.01 |
| malc_ | navi_se: something like that | 09:58.21 |
| navi_se | cool, thanks malc_ | 09:58.35 |
| malc_ | navi_se: np. i don't think that asking llpp questions on #ghostscript is very productive though | 09:59.32 |
| navi_se | it's the only place I know of XD | 09:59.58 |
| | (and mostly hoping to stumble on you tbh) | 10:00.05 |
| malc_ | heh, well i have e-mail | 10:00.37 |
| navi_se | ah :) thanks | 10:01.22 |
| malc_ | tatl is better btw | 10:04.36 |
| Robin_Watts | Gah. I hate perl. | 18:19.56 |
| | Tell me in advance that I haven't said "my" $variable, but don't bother telling me that I've called mylog instead of mydbg. | 18:20.42 |
| | Trying to figure out why it's crashing, I'm putting mylog("here") earlier and earlier in the file, and it's crashing earlier and earlier in the run... | 18:21.24 |
| acharles | Hi. I was wondering what the release cadence looks like for ghostscript? Or when/how you guys decide on releases? | 20:29.43 |
| ray_laptop | acharles: We do releases every 6 months, so the next release is due in March, but sometimes we encounter issues during the rigorous pre-release testing (including feedback from outside users that test our release candidates) | 21:15.06 |
| acharles | Thanks for the reply. | 21:15.36 |
| | Completely unrelated question. Has an svg output device ever been considered? | 21:16.04 |
| ray_laptop | acharles: we had one that never was widely used that was removed by commit 8dacc34a | 21:21.00 |
| | roughly 2 years ago | 21:21.13 |
| | acharles: if you want to pull it in and play with it, feel free (but don't whine to us when it doesn't do everything you want). | 21:22.36 |
| acharles | Ah | 21:23.09 |
| | Iâm somewhat surprised that it didnât get used a lot. | 21:23.50 |
| | Thereâs a well defined interface for output devices, right? | 21:24.37 |
| ray_laptop | acharles: well defined, sort of. Simple stuff, yes. Text is the booger | 21:25.05 |
| | the pdfwrite (and its child ps2write) device are the only devices that do text | 21:26.12 |
| | acharles: BTW, for the dates of our previous releases, see doc/History9.htm online at: https://ghostscript.com/doc/current/History9.htm | 21:28.06 |
| acharles | Thanks. | 21:28.36 |
| | And I imagine svg also did text, since thatâs the primary feature that people want from svg vs png, for example. | 21:29.14 |
| ray_laptop | acharles: NOW is a good time to let us know if you find anything with -dSAFER (and -dDELAYSAFER ... .setsafe) | 21:29.34 |
| | hopefully chrisl fixed everything in the past week or so | 21:30.34 |
| acharles | Master seems fine for now, though obviously, I canât say there arenât other issues. | 21:34.00 |
| | :P | 21:34.06 |
| ray_laptop | acharles: I am going to set my teenage son to see if he can hack it (he's reading "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593271441/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) | 21:37.51 |
| acharles | haha | 21:38.07 |
| ray_laptop | it doesn't have a ghostscript chapter, but I'll prompt him on the basics | 21:41.22 |
| | does anyone have an objection to me adding "-dDumpXML" option to toolbin/pdf_info.ps (to dump the XML Metadata)? | 21:46.12 |
| | hmm... probably should ask that on #artifex... | 21:46.38 |
| | but if anyone here has an opinion, I will listen | 21:47.01 |
| | acharles: when it comes to SVG, images are fairly easy (as can be imagined -- they can always be converted to an sRGB colorspace or whatever SVG supports). graphics for paths filled with solid colors, also easy. Gradients (shaded fills) are *much* more difficult to map over, and text is (as mentioned) the hardest is text that do not have SVG constructs (embedded CIDFonts, embedded fonts with... | 22:10.52 |
| | ...no "ToUnicode" info, fonts that are not embedded that have to be substituted by GS, etc) | 22:10.53 |
| acharles | ray_pc_: Yeah, we have a tool that does this, but itâs original author moved on. Itâd be awesome to find a well maintained replacement, but that seems non-trivial. | 23:18.27 |
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