Re: Bug#40432 acknowledged by developer (pstotext conversion problem)

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert]

But, why does it work flawlessly in Acrobat?  Should I instead report this
bug to the maintainer of GhostScript?

Thanks.

 > From: http://www.bugs.debian.org/~owner (Debian Bug Tracking System)
 > Date: Tue  Jun 29,  6:05pm
 >
 > This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report.
 > 
 > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
 > "J.H.M. Dassen" <http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jdassen>.
 > 
 > Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
 > unsatisfactory and you haven't received a better one in a separate
 > message then please contact the developer directly, or email
 > http://www.bugs.debian.org/~submit or me.
 > 
 > Ian Jackson
 > (administrator, Debian bugs database)
 > 
 > Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:00:14 +0200
 > From: "J.H.M. Dassen" <http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jdassen>
 > To: 40432-http://www.bugs.debian.org/~done
 > Subject: Re: Bug#40432: pstotext conversion problem
 > Message-ID: <19990630010013.http://www.pc203a.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~A27517>
 > References: <19990629150900.20372.qmail>
 > In-Reply-To: <19990629150900.20372.qmail>; from robert on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 03:08:57PM +0000
 > 
 > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 15:08:57 +0000, robert wrote:
 > > I'm getting a failure when trying to convert a PDF file which I can
 > > correctly view in AcroBat (acroread) v. 3.0.  Here's what pstotext -debug
 > > reveals:
 > 
 > This is definitely not a pstotext bug. Ghostscript (via gv) has the same
 > problem. xpdf complains:
 > Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
 > Error (988): Missing 'endstream'
 > 
 > Thus it's nearly certain the problem is that your PDF file isn't right.
 > 
 > I'm closing this bug,
 > Ray