#790112 djvulibre-bin: ddjvu: TIFF output requires a valid output file name

Package:
djvulibre-bin
Source:
djvulibre
Description:
Utilities for the DjVu image format
Submitter:
Nomen Nescio
Date:
2015-06-27 09:27:06 UTC
Severity:
minor
#790112#5
Date:
2015-06-27 09:24:43 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The man page states that the output filename can be a dash or be
omitted, in which case the output goes to /dev/sdtout.  Assuming the
documentation is correct, it's broken:

  $ ddjvu -format=tiff myfile.djvu > /tmp/kmasdkfe.tiff
  ddjvu: TIFF output requires a valid output file name.

  $ ddjvu -format=tiff myfile.djvu - > /tmp/kmasdkfe.tiff
  ddjvu: TIFF output requires a valid output file name.

If this is a deliberate limitation of TIFF files in particular, the
documentation should disclose the limitation.