ps2ascii man page is wrong about PDFs on standard input
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ghostscript (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The ps2ascii man page says: "PDF input must come from an explicitly-named file, not standard input." This is incorrect. ps2ascii is perfectly happy to read a PDF from standard input:
cat file.pdf | ps2ascii
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ghostscript 9.55.0~
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-76-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon Jul 17 13:52:48 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-29 (1234 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
SourcePackage: ghostscript
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-12-03 (225 days ago)
| Daniel Barrett (dbarrett-m) wrote | #1 |
| Alex Cherepanov (alexcher-gs) wrote | #2 |
This was true long ago, but for 10+ years Ghostscript copies PDF documents from stdin to a temporary file that allows direct access. Please fix the man page.