Comment 41 for bug 172264

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jmagsho (jmagsho) wrote : Re: [Bug 172264] Re: [Gutsy SRU Request] Ghostscript in Gutsy and Hardy is not able to print encrypted PDFs out of Adobe Reader 8.1.1

I was unable to get the packages to properly build either so my testing
has been unsuccessful thus far...

HaraldK wrote:
> >From the table at the top of this page, I read that this should be fixed
> and released, however it does not work for me and I guess I have an up-
> to-date gutsy system, because:
>
> %sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> % dpkg -s ghostscript|grep Version
> Version: 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-0ubuntu3.2
>
> So the 3.3 does not seem to be out yet.
>
> Nevertheless: after doing the compile magic described above, I now can
> print my bank statements.
>
> Further remark: This does not help for neither kpdf or an acroread7 nor
> for evince. Acroread7->postscript shows an empty page in gv.
> Kpdf->postscript shows the page in gv but rendered seemingly with
> replacement fonts of the wrong spacing. Evince->postscript shows up even
> stranger in gv, as if a bitmap font was anti-aliased.
>
> So for now the only way to print my bank statement is acroread8 (at
> least they provide an deb).
>
> HaraldK
>
>