Comment 4 for bug 583990

Till:

I appreciate how you're interacting with the Ghostscript developers and shepherding bugs through their bug system and IRC channel. Thanks!

I disagree, however, with setting the importance of this bug to "low".

First, while I used ps2pdf12 as an example, it similarly doesn't work with ps2pdf13 or ps2pdf14.

More important is the following. I've been using Linux systems to produce a series of e-books, an example of which is at

http://www.trillia.com/zakon1.html

(search for "download the book"). If I use the version of ghostscript currently in 10.04 to produce the books, then none of the links work: not from the PDF table of contents in the sidebar, nor from the book's table of contents, nor from the index to the interior of the book, nor from references like "From Theorem 7 in Section 3". In short, there's almost no added value to producing an e-book in PDF without these links.

The IRC channel discussion seems to conclude that production steps I use for my books is the preferred way to produce PDF files for viewing on several platforms or with several viewers, but it doesn't work if this bug isn't fixed.

I interpret your preceding comment that the upstream bug fix likely won't get shipped until the 10.10 release time frame. Six months is a long time not to be able to produce hyperlinked documents in Ubuntu.

Brad