Bug 55772
| Summary: | Problem rendering eps files in lyx-1.1.6fix3-1 | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Emmanuel Druon <emmanuel.druon> | ||||
| Component: | ghostscript | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | alexcher, paul, rh-bugzilla | ||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-10-18 16:35:13 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Emmanuel Druon
2001-11-06 13:52:43 UTC
(I'm the LyX developer who reported the original ghostscript bug.) See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=224957&group_id=1897&atid=101897 for the problem. This bug is still present all the way up to 6.52 it seems. It would be great if RedHat could apply the patch in that bug report to their packaged gnu ghostscript -afaics there still isn't a gnu ghostscript available with that bug fixed. It would be really great if this could be fixed in Red Hat's GNU Ghostscript RPM, as when I tried putting AFPL Ghostscript 7.03 in /usr/local on one of our boxes, opening one guy's thesis caused X to crash out! Should that be submitted as an XFree86 bug too? Thanks for the patch. Fix is applied in 6.53-1. Created attachment 51304 [details]
An EPS that causes ghostscript to never stop
I have attached an EPS that, when run with gv, will cause ghostscript to not stop running. I have tested this with the RPMs 6.51-16 and the one in skipjack, 6.53-4. All have the same result. Also have this problem is ps2pdf and pstoedit. In pstoedit, if I try to convert the EPS to a SK (for Sketch), ghostscript never finishes. But if I have pstodit convert it to AI (for Adobe Illustrator), it works correctly. Likewise if I include this file in TeX document, ps2pdf has no problems. Thanks for the attachment. The offending fragment is this:
/null {clear} def
Not sure what it's supposed to do. I don't know PostScript well enough to know
whether it ought to terminate or not. I've reported this upstream.
7.05-3 (from rawhide) does the same thing. By some reason Ghostscript doesn't bind null, true, and false all over the code. lpd once said that //null looks ugly. So any attempt to redefine these names screw up the code. I plan to bind all these names bur GS development team considers this a low priority problem. (This is already reported upstream, via sourceforge) Artifex made this a bounty bug. I submitted a patch on 2004-11-27 but it has not been reviewed. Please kick them and help me get my bounty. For details see: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687608 Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks. Please check if this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been provided. Note that any bug still open against Red Hat Linux on will be closed as 'CANTFIX' on September 30, 2006. Thanks again for your help. Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX. |