Bug 498496

Summary:	EPS file produced by Grace can't be printed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Erik Ylvisaker <eylvisaker>
Component:	grace	Assignee:	José Matos <jamatos>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	12	CC:	jamatos, pertusus
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Description Erik Ylvisaker 2009-04-30 18:32:13 UTC

Description of problem:
EPS files generated by xmgrace fail to print in evince or ps.  They can be fixed by running ps2pdf.  This is a duplicate of <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431145">bug 431145</a>, which was filed against Fedora Core 8 but never fixed.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Name       : grace
Arch       : i386
Version    : 5.1.22
Release    : 2.fc10

How reproducible:
Very easily

Steps to Reproduce:
EPS file is produced in grace by the following.
1. Run xmgrace
2. File -> Print Setup
3. Change device to EPS
4. Click Accept
5. File -> Print

Now the file "Untitled.eps" is created.  Open it in evince and try to print, but it won't print.  Evince reports no error.
  
Actual results:
No printing occurs.

Expected results:
The file should print.

Additional info:
The file can be fixed manually by adding the following two lines to the header
(I have only tested adding this at the end of the header, but that probably doesn't matter):
%%Pages: 1
%%Page: 1  

Looking at the grace source code, in src/psdrv.c there at line 245 there is:
    if (curformat == PS_FORMAT) {
        fprintf(prstream, "%%%%Pages: 1\n");
        fprintf(prstream, "%%%%PageOrder: Ascend\n");
    }

It probably should be something like:
    fprintf(prstream, "%%%%Pages: 1\n");
    if (curformat == PS_FORMAT) {
        fprintf(prstream, "%%%%PageOrder: Ascend\n");
    }
    else {
        fprintf(prstream, "%%%%Page: 1\n");    
    }
The above is pure speculation on my part, I have not tested this code myself.

Comment 1 Erik Ylvisaker 2009-04-30 18:33:29 UTC

Just to clarify, in the steps to reproduce, there is no need to load any data into xmgrace.  Running without any arguments and loading no data still reproduces the issue.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 11:53:14 UTC

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Comment 3 José Matos 2009-11-19 18:56:08 UTC

I am changing this bug to version 12.

I would like to have this bug fixed but it is low in priority list (as there is a workaround). Any help is appreciated.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 11:17:42 UTC

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 06:55:24 UTC

Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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