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Bug 1161739

Summary: bug in ghostscript v9.14 causes a problem with hyperlinks when using dvips (LaTeX) - request backport of v9.15
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Randy Yates <yates>
Component: ghostscriptAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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latex test file demonstrating the bug in ghostscript v9.14 none

Description Randy Yates 2014-11-07 18:15:11 UTC
Created attachment 955040 [details]
latex test file demonstrating the bug in ghostscript v9.14

Description of problem:
See summary.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.14

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a latex .tex file with /usepackage{hyperref} (see attached file test.tex)
2.run the following commands

  latex test
  latex test
  dvipdf test.dvi

3. open the resulting pdf file in adobe acrobat: acroread test.pdf

4. click on the "link test" link.

Actual results:

Position does not move to the specified link.

Expected results:

Position would move to page 2 at the link test section.

Additional info:

I'm using TeXLive 2013 (?) but the problem should be reproducible with the LaTeX in the repo.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2014-11-10 11:42:28 UTC
We need ghostscript-9.15 in F-21 before it can get into F-20. I'll start on that.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2015-04-02 12:00:55 UTC
Next problem is that ghostscript-9.15 requires openjpeg 2.1.x. Looks like this isn't worth doing before EOL.