Re: Problem with PDF file genreated by Notes application on maCOS

At 16:39 21/07/2018 -0400, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:


> > If you think you've found a bug in Ghostscript, then please report a 
> bug. This forum is for discussing Ghostscript development, not bug reports.
> >
> > I'm also unclear on why you think this is our bug.
>
>Ah, sorry about that.  I looked for a general Ghostscript discussion 
>forum, but didn’t see one, hence the mail to this list.

To be honest, this mailing list is all but defunct these days, its a pretty 
old-fashioned way to handle forums now.

Excerpt from my canned response to emails sent to support by free users:

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We do value input from our free user community and we will fix bugs 
reported to us as well as considering enhancement requests. However, this 
is entirely at our own discretion and, as you would expect, our commercial 
customers are given priority over free users.

Bugs can be reported (and enhancement requests raised) at 
http://bugs.ghostscript.com there are a number of other avenues open to 
free users:

1) The stack overflow web site has a small but active community involved 
with Ghostscript, as well as PostScript and PDF. Questions raised here will 
often get a good response.

2) The UseNet forum comp.lang.postscript again has a similar community of 
enthusiasts.

3) The Ghostscript developers can be found on the #ghostscript IRC channel 
on irc.freenode.net. Questions asked here will usually get a response 
though time zone differences can mean there are periods when nobody is 
available. The channel is logged, the developers read the logs and will 
respond, so even if nobody answers immediately hang around, someone will 
eventually. Alternatively check back in the logs later.

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In truth I'm seriously considering removing Usenet from that list too, its 
almost dead now as well.


>I don’t think it’s a bug in Ghostscript -  I find it it one of the 
>better PDF interpreters out there, catching things that Acrobat doesn’t, 
>or Apple’s Preview application.

We talked about it, and decided that while we would emulate Acrobat's 
tolerance for malformed PDF files, wherever possible, we would still raise 
warnings, so that alert users would at least know that the output *might* 
be incorrect.


                         Ken