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| Status: | 1 - Closed w/Resolution |
|---|---|
| Priority: | 4 - High, e.g. key functionality not working |
| Scope: | 3 - Applies to all machines and operating systems |
| Subsystem: | ESP Ghostscript |
| Summary: | ps2pdf cannot create valid PDF files with images |
| Version: | 8.15-current |
| Created By: | till.kamppeter |
| Assigned To: | werner.suse |
| Fix Version: | 8.15-current (SVN: r128) |
| Update Notification: |
Trouble Report Files:
| Name/Time/Date | Filename/Size |
|---|---|
| till.kamppeter 05:31 Nov 02, 2005 | ecg590i_lecture10.ps 0.7M |
| tombork 16:58 Dec 08, 2005 | test.ps 76k |
| tombork 16:58 Dec 08, 2005 | test.pdf 5k |
| tombork 17:05 Dec 08, 2005 | cubeonly.gif 4k |
| till.kamppeter 04:18 Jan 14, 2006 | espgs-8.15.2rc1-pdfwrite.dif 2k |
Trouble Report Dialog:
| Name/Time/Date | Text |
|---|---|
| till.kamppeter 05:31 Nov 02, 2005 | See http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19437 It seems that when converting PostScript files to PDF with ESP GhostScript, images in the files are not converted correctly. The conversion itself (using the "ps2pdf" script which comes with ESP GS) gives no error messages, but the resulting PDF file is not correctly displayed. gv and xpdf show the PDF file, but with broken images, acroread gives a "Drawing error" message on pages with images and displays only the text. In kpdf nothing is displayed and the PDF interpreter backend takes 100 % CPU (endless loop?). An example PostScript file is attached. The problem did not occur with ESP GhostScript 8.15.1-rc4. |
| till.kamppeter 09:13 Nov 02, 2005 | See also the attachments at the original report at Mandriva: http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19437 |
| mike 06:19 Nov 30, 2005 | Looking into it... |
| tombork 17:04 Dec 08, 2005 | test.ps was created with ghostpdf.ppd from cubeonly.gif on win xp sp2 and can viewed with gsview for windows. test.pdf was created from test.ps with /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf der tom |
| tombork 00:59 Dec 10, 2005 | Do you need a diff -au from the pdf files created with 7.07.1 and 8.15.1 from the same ps file (7.07.1 is okay, 8.15.1 not)? How can I help you to solve this problem soon? der tom |
| tombork 12:08 Dec 10, 2005 | Is 8.15.1-rc4 downloadeable anywhere (which has this problem not, as till.kamppeter stated)? I need properly created password protected PDFs with images and cannot wait some weeks/month/years for a fix... der tom |
| tombork 02:05 Dec 13, 2005 | Mmpf: 8.15.1-rc4 from http://svn.easysw.com/public/espgs/tags/espgs-8.15rc4 is also affected :( Printing www.fli4l.de as pdf produces unreadeable files for Acrobat Reader (Es ist ein Grafikfehler aufgetreten - in english: Drawing error). Have to use GPL Ghostscript 8.15 now and forget cups... GPL Ghostscript 8.15 has no problems with www.fli4l.de and the other posted files here (ecg590i_lecture10.ps). der tom |
| till.kamppeter 17:33 Dec 19, 2005 | News from http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19437: Downgrading to ESP GhostScript 7.07.x solves the problem. So a regression happened on the switch to 8.15.x. |
| jwoithe 21:10 Dec 21, 2005 | I can confirm that this bug exists under ESP ghostscript 8.15 on Slackware 10.2. I can also confirm that the bug does NOT exist under AFPL ghostscript 8.53. On my system I need to keep an ESP ghostscript around for CUPS to work. My current workaround has therefore been to compile AFPL ghostscript 8.53, install ps2pdf-related bits to a prefix different to the existing ghostscript and use 8.53 only for PDF creation. |
| till.kamppeter 04:18 Jan 14, 2006 | Fixed in Subversion revision r128. Or use the attached patch from Werner Fink. Thanks to Werner Fink from SuSE for this fix. |