[bug #68299] [ms] add PDF support

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #68299 (group groff):

At 2026-05-11T10:12:25-0400, Deri James wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #10, bug #68299 (group groff):
> [comment #9 comment #9:]
>> I successfully worked around the problem by commenting your
>> "abstract"--just the GNU head, hah!  The build ran to completion and
>> all the tests passed!
>>
>> Good deal!
>
> Seems its a debian thang. See:-
>
> https://en.linuxportal.info/tutorials/troubleshooting/how-to-fix-errors-from-imagemagick-imagick-conversion-system-security-policy

That sounds familiar.  Didn't you report a similar (or the same) problem
a year or more ago?

> I've removed the gnu!

A shame--the page looked better with it there!

Though as an image I like the one at the groff home page even better.

https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/gnu-head-groff.png

Dude's chillin' next to his printing press, soakin' up the lead fumes.

> Longer term I will look at generating gnu.jpg which can be imported
> "natively" by gropdf (no ImageMagik involvement). pnmtojpeg.

Acknowledged.

> I'm currently finishing ChangeLog/commit messages, so should be
> committed later today. Please make any improvements you see fit, I
> know where my weaknesses lie (too succinct / inconsistent naming
> strategy / among others!) so I'm more than happy for your help.

Sounds good.  Full speed ahead!

> If you want to make "PDF Features" the default, it is just a 1 line
> change (103), but some of the documentation will need adjusting.

Yeah, I can help out with that for sure.  I saw some other documentation
tweaks that I wanted to make as well.

Like adding mdoc to the list of packages so Ingo doesn't yell at us. ;-)



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