Hi On Wed, 25 Dec 2024, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
In the ghostscript bug report Ken relaxed this statement to "senseless but legal" and the next gs seems to accept that.
Great to hear!
The PDF/Postscript specs do not really say if 0 is allowed as value (typical vagueness) but as all readers seem to handle that ...
:-( One of the happy things in life ;-) On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, Hans Hagen wrote:
In the meantime I've seen plenty of pdf files (not produced by pdf/luatex) that contain (for instance) "senseless but legal" operator / font usage in
That is not a valid excuse, though. Only because other software creates incorrect pdfs should not make it ok to create incorrect pdfs.
One should also keep in mind that there might be plenty documents out there that have zero entry bfrange's so it would be interesting to see what the
Yes, and so it is good that the next gs seems to accept it. Still, having a PDFs produced by "us" (as the TeX world) being generally ok in most cases is very much preferrable. Best regards, happy holidays, and all the best for the next year Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info arXiv / Cornell University + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13