Re: no links in PDFs with gs 9.56.1

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 09:44 +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Two days ago I've updated my openSUSE box, which now comes with gs
> 9.56.1 – previously, I had gs 9.54.0.  This new gs version uses a
> brand-new PDF engine written in C, replacing the old one written in
> PostScript.

To clarify: As I already wrote in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2021-05/msg00075.html
this is about the PDF interpreter, not the PDF "engine" that LilyPond
uses to convert Postscript to PDF.

> Building the LilyPond documentation I wondered why the new output
> file size of `notation.pdf` is only 75% of the old size.  After some
> checks I found out that all links are gone.
> 
> So, a heads-up: gs 9.56.0 and 9.56.1 are buggy!  According to
> 
>   https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705565
> 
> this has been fixed meanwhile, but I have no idea when 9.56.2 gets
> released.
> 
> In case you are forced to use 9.56.1, add `-dNEWPDF=false` to the gs
> command line options (in file `Documentation/GNUmakefile`) to make gs
> use the old PDF engine, which produces good results.

So this is about the post-processing step with extractpdfmark + gs,
right?

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