Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u3
Severity: normal
Hi,
using /usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/lib/PDFA_def.ps I can convert a PDF
into PDF/A-1b like so:
$ env --chdir=/usr/share/color/icc/ghostscript/ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE \
> -dSAFEGR -dPDFA=1 -sProcessColorModel=DeviceRGB
-dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1
> -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/tmp/out.pdf \
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/lib/PDFA_def.ps \
> in.pdf
Using "env --chdir" as well as using an absolute path for OutputFile is
necessary because PDFA_def.ps references srgb.icc with a relative path
in /usr/share/color/icc/ghostscript/ -- this means that unless the
command is executed in /usr/share/color/icc/ghostscript/, PDFA_def.ps is
useless and must be edited to contain the right absolute path to
srgb.icc.
I propose to either:
- move PDFA_def.ps to /usr/share/doc/*/examples because it's a file
that cannot be used immediately but has to be edited first
- patch PDFA_def.ps to include the full path to
/usr/share/color/icc/ghostscript/srgb.icc so that it can be used from
any directory
Thanks!
cheers, josch
