… /PAGELABEL pdfmark does not allow pdf encoding
In Distiller Pro XI 11.0.20 (28/03/2017), and in many earlier versions, pdfmark is inconsistent about whether strings should be plain ASCII or in the pdf encoding. In particular, “… /Title String /OUT pdfmark” can be in the PDF encoding, but “/Label String /PAGELABEL pdfmark” must be plain ASCII.
Example PostScript:
%!PS
/Times-Bold 48 selectfont
/StringASCII (ASCII-encoded string) def
/StringPDF (PDF-\351\361\347\370\360\353\360 \235tr\232\361g) def % Silly accents
36 36 moveto (ASCII string) show
mark /Dest /Page1ASCII /DEST pdfmark
mark /Action /GoTo /Dest /Page1ASCII /Title StringASCII /Count 0 /OUT pdfmark
mark /Label StringASCII /PAGELABEL pdfmark
showpage
36 36 moveto (PDF-encoded string) show
mark /Dest /Page2PDF /DEST pdfmark
mark /Action /GoTo /Dest /Page2PDF /Title StringPDF /Count 0 /OUT pdfmark
mark /Label StringPDF /PAGELABEL pdfmark
showpage
which is also at
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20170513_pdmark_encoding_bug.ps
distills to
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20170513_pdmark_encoding_bug.pdf
The outline items are correct — screen grab at
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20170513_OUTs.png
But the second pagelabel has gone all wrong: it cannot cope with the pdf encoding.
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20170513_PAGELABELs.png
This is a bug, also reported at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.postscript/xqXz9g44ATs
Julian D. A. Wiseman
shared this idea
Thank you for your bug report.
Unfortunately, we are unable to address this problem in this version of the product, given other high priority issues.
Feel free to reopen a new case if you think that this is critically blocking your functionality.
Thanks
Tanvi
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Julian D. A. Wiseman
commented
Thank you — fixed as of Pro 11.0.21 (26/07/2017).
I’ll take the liberty of pointing the kind programmer who fixed this in the direction of https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/19265068-distiller-moveto-the-currentpoint-results-in-a-co