Ghostscript bug review 2021

Bug #	Tracker	Review	Summary	Comment
703294	unconfirmed	Not yet	Ghostscript fails to compile against Android NDK's cdefs.h	none
703265	confirmed	Not yet	Ghostscript hangs forever while extracting images from pdf	none
703262	unconfirmed	Not yet	Stop deprecation plan of opvp devices	none
703246	in_progress	Not yet	Inefficient implementation of endbfchar	none
703245	unconfirmed	Not yet	GS fails to convert all the PDF pages to color TIFF/JPEG	none
703244	unconfirmed	Not yet	Build of nightly debug-Z@ fails on ergs for PCL, XPS, GPDL (not GS)	none
703238	unconfirmed	Not yet	Add validation of command line options	none
703237	unconfirmed	Not yet	Inconsistent use of signalerror	none
703184	unconfirmed	Not yet	pngalpha device output white background for large image	none
703180	unconfirmed	Not yet	The -dHaveTransparency option converts the whole document into plain images, not just the transparent objects	none
703172	unconfirmed	Not yet	MANY new SEGV's: 11/21/20 bmpcmp auto=weekly/cal_arm ref rev master options smoke	none
703147	unconfirmed	Not yet	ps2pdf does not take into account the "%%PageOrder: Descend" or "%%Pages: 18 -1"	none
703143	confirmed	Not yet	segfault in ps2txt with certain large file	none
703095	unconfirmed	Not yet	ghostscript fails to build on arm64-darwin (Apple Silicon on macOS Big Sur)	none
703013	unconfirmed	Not yet	Broken 16-bit visuals in X Display Driver	none
702965	unconfirmed	Not yet	Handle /dev/null output device with multi-page eps2write driver	none
702960	unconfirmed	Not yet	Valgrind error in clamp_poin_aux on txtwrite device	none
702955	unconfirmed	Not yet	Valgrind error in cmd_put_list_op	none
702954	unconfirmed	Not yet	Bad op 0a on pdfwrite device with compatibility level < 1.4	none
702953	unconfirmed	Not yet	Valgrind error in apr_vformatter	none
702950	unconfirmed	Not yet	Valgrind error in gx_restrict_ICC	none
702914	unconfirmed	Not yet	Font caching and performance when embedding Fonts	none
702910	confirmed	Not yet	Can't build THREADSAFE Ghostscript Release DLL with Visual Studio	none
702909	unconfirmed	Not yet	Build system mishandles ORIGIN-based runpath	none
702905	unconfirmed	Not yet	/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv	none
702893	confirmed	Not yet	tiffsep1 can only handle one halftone	none
702852	confirmed	Not yet	Codespell report for "GhostPDL" (on fossies.org)	none
702742	unconfirmed	Not yet	File size 10x times larger after converting colour PDF to PCL using cljet5c driver	none
702581	unconfirmed	Not yet	Halftones get normalized	none
702448	unconfirmed	Not yet	Memento leak with tests_private/pcl/pcl5cfts/fts.2180	none
702381	in_progress	Not yet	ghostscript hangs at 100% cpu when converting this pdf to png	none
702362	unconfirmed	Not yet	make soinstall does not install GhostPDL shared objects and binaries	none
702290	confirmed	Not yet	mswinpr2 doesn't work if the printer has a name with a German umlaut	none
702167	unconfirmed	Not yet	PDF to TIFF conversion missing text characters	none
702155	unconfirmed	Not yet	Cluster indeterminism with pdfwrite of gradient	none
702135	unconfirmed	Not yet	Halftone angle inverted in specific situations on tiffsep1	none
702111	unconfirmed	Not yet	MediaType parameter lost	none
702096	confirmed	Not yet	opj_tcd_decode_tile() allocates wastefully compared to luratech.	none
702043	in_progress	Not yet	Issues with blend modes	none
701985	confirmed	Not yet	CAL performance worse than standard	none
701464	confirmed	Not yet	Mapping simplified Chinese, punctuation missing issues	none
701165	unconfirmed	Not yet	Bold fonts come out with gaps	none
701022	unconfirmed	Not yet	Parameters of the RGB->CMYK pdf conversion	none
700954	unconfirmed	Not yet	ghostscript-9.27rc1 error: invalid use of void expression	none
700556	unconfirmed	Not yet	Mystery behavior for .origdefinefont, .origundefinefont, .origfindfont	none
700012	unconfirmed	Not yet	review gs_opendevice(), check_device_separable, and gx_device_fill_in_procs()	none
699829	unconfirmed	Not yet	Investigate files where OpenJPEG is slower and/or more memory demanding that Luratech JPX	none
699209	unconfirmed	Not yet	Halftone phase problem with clist	none
698881	unconfirmed	Not yet	Problem with spot color with same name of master color (CMJK)	none
698731	unconfirmed	Not yet	Adobe Distiller can't handle fonts correctly when PS derives from GS 9.22 (ps2write)	none
698419	unconfirmed	Not yet	gen_ordered cells in supercell need better dispersion	none
698337	unconfirmed	Not yet	When converting/extracting a png from an AI or PDF file the layers are improperly positioned for some documents	none
697978	in_progress	Not yet	Need device that supports spot color to CMYK that has halftone per tag (object type)	none
697965	in_progress	Not yet	CMY output device produces incorrect color	none
697860	unconfirmed	Not yet	PDF with white background rendered as image with black background	none
697689	confirmed	Not yet	1 false .outputpage doesn't work	none
697680	unconfirmed	Not yet	edgebuffer scan converter performance regressions	none
697673	unconfirmed	Not yet	Clist gets clip path wrong	none
697660	unconfirmed	Not yet	Enhancement to store tiles in clist using pseudo-op and simplify tile cache logic	none
697621	in_progress	Not yet	rendering problem, probably clist related, with psdcmykog device	none
697614	in_progress	Not yet	Overprint/Text Knockout	none
697545	unconfirmed	Not yet	Fix memory squeezing issues	none
697532	confirmed	Not yet	Text Transparency Knockout	none
697458	unconfirmed	Not yet	clist handling of fill adjust for clips is broken.	none
696899	unconfirmed	Not yet	Last batch of files where Luratech JPX decoder fails where openjpeg succeeds	none
696896	unconfirmed	Not yet	Luratech JPX decoder fails to decode image	none
696895	unconfirmed	Not yet	Luratech JPX decoder uses incorrect colorspace for plain JPEG2000 codestreams	none
696884	unconfirmed	Not yet	gs renders JPX image with subsampled components incorrectly	none
696825	unconfirmed	Not yet	Luratech jbig2 image decoding fails where jbig2dec succeeds	none
696676	unconfirmed	Not yet	mswinpr2 -dNoCancel is blank or nothing	none
696588	unconfirmed	Not yet	Droid is now Noto CJK (with vastly extended coverage)	none
696559	unconfirmed	Not yet	mswinpr2 needs dQueryUser to query windows printer settings	none
696257	unconfirmed	Not yet	File encountered 'VMerror' error while processing an image	none
696224	unconfirmed	Not yet	Invalid font colors produced when using freetype renderer	none
696094	unconfirmed	Not yet	render artifacts in radial gradients	none
695975	unconfirmed	Not yet	AI / PDF to JPEG Conversion - Image Quality is Poor (GS9.16 Specific)	none
695925	in_progress	Not yet	Properly implement overprint simulation for non-separation devices	none
695919	confirmed	Not yet	Implement transfer function handling according the the PDF 1.7 spec section 7.6.4	none
695760	confirmed	Not yet	Make more effort to preserve Names tree from input PDF	none
695647	confirmed	Not yet	Differences in xpswrite	none
695646	confirmed	Not yet	Rectangles obscure text	none
695643	confirmed	Not yet	Page missing with xpswrite device	none
695642	confirmed	Not yet	Line caps and mitres not correct in xpswrite	none
695641	confirmed	Not yet	Filling differences	none
695464	in_progress	Not yet	Missing artwork with tiffsep device	none
695368	confirmed	Not yet	Broken Type 16 halftone	none
695302	confirmed	Not yet	Improvemensts for colour management	none
695198	unconfirmed	Not yet	x11 device scroll bars	none
695153	confirmed	Not yet	Ghostscript locks up reading PDF file	none
695124	unconfirmed	Not yet	patch to remove -diccTransform option, and verify/filing the rest of the testing issues.	none
695095	unconfirmed	Not yet	WM_CLASS	none
695091	unconfirmed	Not yet	indeterminism in mask?	none
695081	unconfirmed	Not yet	grayscale images sometimes show in color	none
695073	confirmed	Not yet	Need fast image threshold dithering for depth > 1	none
695063	in_progress	Not yet	"Error: /unregistered in --run--" with --saved-pages-test	none
694993	confirmed	Not yet	Provide method for devices to write data out via the API stdio callbacks	none
694976	confirmed	Not yet	Input tray (MediaPosition) not preserved unless -dNOMEDIAATTRS specified	none
694859	unconfirmed	Not yet	tiffsep leaves handle open on main generated composite file when called from within code in .net	none
694850	confirmed	Not yet	Threshold tables are not generated entirely evenly.	none
694741	confirmed	Not yet	Differences in output via pxlcolor vs. direct	none
694692	confirmed	Not yet	Ghostscript does not apply the LSB override from a Metrics dictioanry	none
694691	confirmed	Not yet	OpenJPEG always calls malloc/free	none
694559	confirmed	Not yet	Luratech JBIG2 integration should use a Ghostscript memory manager	none
694512	unconfirmed	Not yet	"valid resource directory" warning doesn't test what it should	none
694279	confirmed	Not yet	No way to use standard duplex options -dDuplex and -dTumble with PCL drivers (ljet4/ljet4d, perhaps also ljet3/ljet3d)	none
694265	confirmed	Not yet	Valgrind issues found by fuzzing in pdf_image_plane_data (gdevpdfi.c:2020)	none
694094	unconfirmed	Not yet	Wrong rotation of CJK puntuations in vertical writing	none
693691	confirmed	Not yet	marked content and structure info	none
693637	unconfirmed	Not yet	Some of user options are not working in windows printer driver when option QueryUser set to 3.	none
693636	unconfirmed	Not yet	Antialiasing options are ignored in windows printer driver	none
693593	unconfirmed	Not yet	resource leaks when using GSDLL32.dll gsapi_init_with_args	none
693566	in_progress	Not yet	devn_get_params returns mostly incorrect values	none
693473	confirmed	Not yet	Need to remove unused objects in imager state	none
693376	in_progress	Not yet	Ghostscript uses globals where it should not.	none
693343	unconfirmed	Not yet	Broken TrueType fonts result in missing text with pdfwrite	none
693339	confirmed	Not yet	Ghostscript still has sections that use malloc/free	none
693333	unconfirmed	Not yet	pxlmono generates huge PCL files from some PDF files	none
693248	confirmed	Not yet	DeviceN remap structure should be dynamically allocated	none
693235	confirmed	Not yet	Banding interacts badly with huge paths	none
693093	confirmed	Not yet	checkdeps.pl should check for dependency on echogs	none
692840	confirmed	Not yet	Rendering of attached PDF extremely slow.	none
692632	confirmed	Not yet	clist logic wastes BufferSpace when doing transparency.	none
692609	confirmed	Not yet	Halftoned fill color rectangle has underlying problem.	none
692524	confirmed	Not yet	clist device structure 'overlay' should be cleaned up	none
692497	unconfirmed	Not yet	Linear color drawing procedure may not need the color model to be separable	none
692488	in_progress	Not yet	ps2write doesn't handle multiple master fonts properly	none
692335	confirmed	Not yet	increased rom size	none
692236	confirmed	Not yet	Add option to downscaled devices to use halftoning rather than error diffusion.	none
692000	in_progress	Not yet	pdfwrite: incorrect treatment of substitution-based Type 3 Fonts	none
691925	confirmed	Not yet	Additional differences in dithered output with ps2write	none
691913	confirmed	Not yet	PCL files generated from ghostscript 'bust the font cache'	none
691900	confirmed	Not yet	pdf14 compositor should detect transparent colours better	none
691893	confirmed	Not yet	improve api for using word memory devices	none
691781	confirmed	Not yet	No way to select a printer dynamically with COPIES specified	none
691780	confirmed	Not yet	-dSAFER seems to prevent loading of a ttf font	none
691686	confirmed	Not yet	provide binary and developer package for Windows platforms	none
691585	confirmed	Not yet	Need PDF X/1-a format output.	none
691519	confirmed	Not yet	ghostscript needs a "dist" target	none
691477	in_progress	Not yet	Differences in tiff24nc and tiff32nc output	none
691455	confirmed	Not yet	Stroking of sloppily authored paths goes wrong.	none
691432	confirmed	Not yet	X11: some color on gray palette	none
691428	confirmed	Not yet	intel-performance-primitive based jpeg2k	none
691361	confirmed	Not yet	CID code review project	none
691321	confirmed	Not yet	Review math in gsptype1.c	none
691314	confirmed	Not yet	pattern accumulator needs to have its own copy alpha operation	none
691135	confirmed	Not yet	image configuration	none
691034	confirmed	Not yet	"Inverted" page devices have the wrong ctm	none
691008	confirmed	Not yet	Ghostscript differs from Acrobat in handling filling an empty clip region	none
690989	unconfirmed	Not yet	gs can't compile with MSVC when SYSDRIVE != c:	none
690975	confirmed	Not yet	XPS and Postscript models differ slightly wrt joining dashes	none
690948	confirmed	Not yet	BoundingBox/MediaSize info initialized too late in pxlcolor	none
690946	confirmed	Not yet	rendering issue with pdf of extreme dimensions	none
690926	confirmed	Not yet	Add optional content preservation to pdfwrite	none
690846	confirmed	Not yet	Mismatch between methods of filling #2	none
690845	confirmed	Not yet	Mismatch between methods of filling.	none
690810	confirmed	Not yet	Fill/Stroke mismatches	none
690761	confirmed	Not yet	Assign Printer Name with sOutputFile not working with -sDEVICE=mswinpr2 while print PDF file	none
690595	unconfirmed	Not yet	increase spool file size drastically while printing.	none
690541	confirmed	Not yet	overflow in tranformation from fixed point formats 26.6 to 24.8	none
690466	confirmed	Not yet	Bits of image missing	none
690393	confirmed	Not yet	Add support for WinCharSetFFFF encoded TrueType fonts	none
690340	confirmed	Not yet	enhancement to CIDFont emulation with TrueType fonts	none
690182	confirmed	Not yet	Tray selection (MediaSource) on PCL 4/5 drivers does not work and so an ugly Perl workaround in Foomatic is needed	none
690180	unconfirmed	Not yet	Improve large font splitting in pdfwrite	none
690143	unconfirmed	Not yet	"setupgs.exe" inside "gs863w32.exe" writes Registry values that are not removed upon uninstall	none
690131	confirmed	Not yet	Optimize consecutive setpagedevice	none
690110	confirmed	Not yet	Can't use OTF/CFF fonts for cidfont substitution	none
689974	confirmed	Not yet	The conversion PDF to PNG produces a picture with the white line	none
689915	confirmed	Not yet	pdfwrite doesn't write PDF 1.5 compressed xref and objects	none
689691	confirmed	Not yet	Error: /typecheck in --put-	none
689584	in_progress	Not yet	pswrite breaks Chinese characters	none
689451	confirmed	Not yet	Limitcheck error on Arc command with large numbers.	none
689236	in_progress	Not yet	pdfwrite disregards -dSubsetFont= with TrueType	none
689222	unconfirmed	Not yet	Clip operator producing null clip region when path has int coords	none
688969	in_progress	Not yet	(shadings) A slow rendering of twisted tensor shadings	none
688872	confirmed	Not yet	pdfwrite: Optimize the resolving of Encoding conflicts.	none
688871	confirmed	Not yet	pdfwrite: True Type font subset optimization	none
688846	confirmed	Not yet	stroking : stroke_fill must not apply fill_adjust	none
688361	unconfirmed	Not yet	Fail to find printers when sDevice is mswinpr2 and user is not logged on.	none
688024	confirmed	Not yet	minor ommition on WINDOWS XP	none
687981	confirmed	Not yet	"Ghostscript PDF" INF installer for Win95/98/ME/NT4/2K/XP	none
687731	in_progress	Not yet	Speed up shadings with a better monotonity check for color conversions	none
687715	confirmed	Not yet	stroking: Stroke width differs from Adobe.	none
687677	confirmed	Not yet	stroking: an 'arct' segment isn't painted	none