Ghostscript 9.25 destroys hyperlinks ?

Gwenaël Jouvin <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:37:10 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I use Ghostscript to shrink PDF documents I create with Latex on a GNU/Linux (Fedora 28) computer.

Following an update of the Ghostscript package, I recently discovered that when compressing my documents with GS, all hyperlinks disappear.
Confirmed in Okular, evince and zathura readers.

I tried to reproduce the issue on a third party PDF generated with MS Publisher 2010: the links are not altered by Ghostscript.
Reverting to 9.23 solves the issue.


The command used is:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf


Below is an example Latex file to reproduce the issue:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec} % lualatex

%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % pdflatex
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
   \url{http://www.fsf.org}
   \href{http://www.gnu.org}{GNU link}
\end{document}


Any clue to avoid this?

Thanks,

Gwenaël