Antenna House: Issues with Ghostscript EPS Processor
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2025 5:44 am
Hello,
I'm using Antenna House Formatter V7.2 and facing an issue where Ghostscript EPS processing corrupts the PDF tag structure and breaks accessibility features.
Problem:
When using, the PDF output has two accessibility issues:
In Adobe Acrobat:
The XML looks like this:
The generated FO looks like this:
What I've Tried:
Tags and ALT text work with the following options, but the image quality is poor.
What EPS processor configuration will make the ALT text and tags appear correctly while preserving good image quality?
Any help is appreciated.
I'm using Antenna House Formatter V7.2 and facing an issue where Ghostscript EPS processing corrupts the PDF tag structure and breaks accessibility features.
Problem:
When using
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eps-processor="ghostscript"In Adobe Acrobat:
- ALT text does not appear on mouse hover over images
- In the Tags panel, images appear as corrupted tags named PathPathPathPath
- ALT text for images should be displayed on mouse hover
- Image tags should show up correctly
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eps-processor="ghostscript"
gs-add-options="-dCompatibilityLevel=1.6
-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
-dEmbedAllFonts=true
-dSubsetFonts=true
-dColorImageDownsampleType=/Average
-dColorImageResolution=160
-dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Average
-dGrayImageResolution=160
-dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Average
-dMonoImageResolution=800"
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<fig>
<title>A sample figure EPS</title>
<image href="sample-image.eps">
<alt>Description of the EPS image</alt>
</image>
</fig>
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<fo:external-graphic
src="url('sample-image.eps')"
axf:alttext="Description of the EPS image"/>
Tags and ALT text work with the following options, but the image quality is poor.
- eps-processor="native"
- eps-processor="auto"
- eps-processor="distiller"
What EPS processor configuration will make the ALT text and tags appear correctly while preserving good image quality?
Any help is appreciated.