Bug 599615

Summary: Current point is imprecise , causing wrong rendering of PS file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan>
Component: ghostscriptAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: QE Internationalization Bugs <qe-i18n-bugs>
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Version: 5.5CC: kem, ktakemur, pknirsch, tao, vbenes
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Fixed In Version: ghostscript-8.70-1.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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A series of imprecise rounding may have caused some elements in a PostScript document to be wrongly positioned when rendered. This has been fixed, and Ghostscript now renders PostScript files correctly.
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Description Olivier Fourdan 2010-06-03 15:44:14 UTC 
Description of problem:

An accumulation of rounding errors cause wrong rendring of PS files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ghostscript 8.15.2

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Open the attached sample PS file in gs

   $ gs -sDEVICE=x11 fig5.ps

Actual results:

The points and circles on the right of the image are misaligned

Expected results:

The points and circles should be aligned

Additional info:

This is upstream bug 687359, proposed patch to follow.
Comment 4 Olivier Fourdan 2010-06-03 15:48:16 UTC 
Created attachment 419426 [details]
Proposed patch

Backport of fix for upsteam bug 687359

    http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687359

From SVN revision 4887.
Comment 6 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-07-20 10:00:25 UTC 
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
A series of imprecise rounding may have caused some elements in a PostScript document to be wrongly positioned when rendered. This has been fixed, and Ghostscript now renders PostScript files correctly.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 22:07:21 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0137.html