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| petercher | ray_laptop: can you take a look at 700404 ? My patch is waiting for review for over a year. | 06:22.49 |
| divin | how can we enable ghostscript for siteground account? | 06:40.31 |
| chrisl | divin: Ask siteground? | 06:41.18 |
| divin | nope | 06:42.57 |
| petercher | divin: Run it as a CGI program if they allow CGI. | 06:43.47 |
| divin | usually in site ground it is enabled default. but I cant se it in my info | 06:43.49 |
| chrisl | Which sounds like something you'd want to ask siteground tech support about - rather than Ghostscript developers | 06:44.27 |
| divin | let me check that. if I have any doubt I will catch you. thank you guys | 06:46.46 |
| petercher | kens: please take a look at my old patch for 695368 . | 07:03.56 |
| kens | petercher I've looked in the past, I still need to think about this. Its on my list but I don't consider it urgent | 07:05.09 |
| Mudit | HI | 13:19.40 |
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| Mudit | i need to enable ghostscipt in siteground hosting server for an app call docsign | 13:20.16 |
| kens | Mudit we cannot help you with siteground, its nothing to do with us | 13:20.32 |
| Mudit | is there any way that i can install this variable in siteround | 13:20.58 |
| kens | I refer you to my previous answer; we cannot help you with siteground, its nothing to do with us | 13:21.24 |
| Mudit | okay thankyou | 13:21.37 |
| xebra | hi, I just used ghostscript to merge two PDF files, the issue is that the final files has duplicate fonts. Isn't there an option to avoid this? Is it a bug? A missing feature? | 16:46.33 |
| chrisl | xebra: Most probably normal | 16:47.37 |
| xebra | chrisl, normal? What do you mean? I read on askubuntu that somebody managed to "optimize" a PDF with ghostscript, but their fonts all had the exact same name. In my case, I'm seeing a lot of pdfs with fonts like ABTHDH+Verdana | 16:53.47 |
| | so maybe that could be the reason why ghostscript is recognizing them as different fonts | 16:54.27 |
| chrisl | The "ABTHDH+" prefix indicates that the fonts are subsets of the originals. The most likely reason for what you are seeing is probably that the subsets are not compatible with each other | 16:55.54 |
| xebra | chrisl, hmm, that makes sense | 16:56.48 |
| chrisl | But it could also be simply that something about the way the fonts are embedded defeats the heuristics that try to identify the same font being reused. | 16:57.09 |
| | xebra: Unfortunately, there are a *lot* of complications involved | 16:58.07 |
| | xebra: Oh, and for clarity, Ghostcript doesn't "merge" pdf files - it creates totally new PDF files, based on the input it's given | 16:59.09 |
| | A quick read of at least the "Overview" section here: https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.52/VectorDevices.htm will explain it more | 17:00.22 |
| xebra | chrisl, I see. It's not a huge problem in my case. I just wanted to understand more, if I was missing anything. Thanks! | 17:01.18 |
| chrisl | xebra: No problem. FWIW, it is also possible you have uncovered a case we're not catering for and should, and if you think that's the case, then your best bet would be to open a bug at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/ | 17:02.33 |
| | But, fair warning, our primary aim with pdfwrite is that the output displays correctly, so if that's the case, then other things will tend to get a lower priority | 17:03.14 |
| xebra | chrisl, yeah, but from what I understand, it's probably because the fonts have different names and refer to different subsets, so ABCD+Verdana and QWERT+Verdana both end up in the result, instead of just one Verdana | 17:04.17 |
| chrisl | xebra: In simple terms, yes. It can be a bit more subtle than that, but unless you know a fair amount about fonts and how PDF uses them, it could be hard to explain! | 17:05.58 |
| petercher | ray_laptop: Could you please review my patch for 700404 ? It has been sitting there for over a year. | 18:07.51 |
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