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by kisamoto 1426 days ago
Not sure why this is being posted now as this is from March...

But anyway - I understand why they have changed their interpreter however the lack of major version bump threw me off. I use ps2pdf to optimize pdfs (long story short - makes their size smaller) and was alarmed when my pdfs suddenly ended up without the jpeg backgrounds. Instead, purely black (although this did result in a very small file size so who knows... :) )

Thankfully you can add `-d NEWPDF=false` to your command to use the old parser. I'm yet to submit a bug report but it would be nice if it was backwards compatible...
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sebras 1425 days ago
Do you mind reporting this over at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/ ? I work on MuPDF myself, but I'm sure my colleagues working on Ghostscript would want to have any differences fixed. Thank you! :)

You can also reach us developers over at our ghostscript Discord channel https://discord.gg/H9GXKwyPvY (https://discord.gg/SnXWzqzjKs for mupdf).

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sandstrom 1425 days ago
Will this new PDF interpreter also go into MuPDF? For use in e.g. `mutool draw`
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