Activity log for bug #316943

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2009-01-14 01:26:47 Jakob Unterwurzacher bug added bug
2009-01-14 01:27:51 Jakob Unterwurzacher bug added attachment 'bash_completion.patch' (bash_completion.patch)
2009-01-14 01:30:26 Jakob Unterwurzacher description ps2pdf will, despite it's name, happily process pdfs (i use it all the time this way to compress pdfs to reasonable sizes). But the tab completion will only show up .ps files, which is annoying. ps2pdf will, despite it's name, happily process pdfs (i use it all the time this way to compress pdfs to reasonable sizes). But the tab completion will only show up .ps files, which is annoying. The attached patch fixes this.
2009-02-22 15:37:56 Dave Walker bash-completion: status New Incomplete
2009-02-22 15:37:56 Dave Walker bash-completion: statusexplanation BUG Hi Jakob, Thanks for reporting this bug and also finding a patch. I did attempt to use ps2pdf to compress a PDF and found that when used on Ubuntu's shipped example content, i did indeed make the file size smaller. However, when i ran it against a PDF generated from firefox print-to-file (PDF), i found it actually made the resulting PDF larger. The other bug that this introduces, ps2pdf's default behaviour is to save the resulting filename, changing the file extension from *.ps to *.pdf. However, without changes to ps2pdf it will save the resulting output to *.pdf.pdf which is less than optimal IMO. Using another tool, such as pdftk with the compress option did make the resulting PDF smaller. This makes me wonder if using ps2pdf in the situation you described is generally optimal for all users. Suggestions welcome!
2009-02-22 17:22:25 James Westby bash-completion: status Incomplete Triaged
2009-02-22 17:22:25 James Westby bash-completion: importance Undecided Low
2009-02-22 17:22:25 James Westby bash-completion: statusexplanation BUG Hi Jakob, Thanks for reporting this bug and also finding a patch. I did attempt to use ps2pdf to compress a PDF and found that when used on Ubuntu's shipped example content, i did indeed make the file size smaller. However, when i ran it against a PDF generated from firefox print-to-file (PDF), i found it actually made the resulting PDF larger. The other bug that this introduces, ps2pdf's default behaviour is to save the resulting filename, changing the file extension from *.ps to *.pdf. However, without changes to ps2pdf it will save the resulting output to *.pdf.pdf which is less than optimal IMO. Using another tool, such as pdftk with the compress option did make the resulting PDF smaller. This makes me wonder if using ps2pdf in the situation you described is generally optimal for all users. Suggestions welcome!
2009-02-22 17:23:04 James Westby bug assigned to bash-completion (Debian)
2009-03-10 04:44:02 Bug Watch Updater bash-completion: status Unknown New
2009-04-29 09:29:14 Launchpad Janitor bash-completion (Ubuntu): status Triaged Fix Released
2009-08-04 12:11:28 Jakob Unterwurzacher bash-completion (Debian): status New Fix Released