Bug 70737

Summary: ps2ascii fails on http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh/treasure/tex/texbook.ps
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component: ghostscriptAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3CC: p.van.egdom
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh/treasure/tex/texbook.ps
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Fixed In Version: ghostscript-8.15.2-1.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2002-08-04 16:34:55 UTC 
I've reported this on gnu.ghostscript.bug newsgroup:

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When trying to run ps2ascii on
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh/treasure/tex/texbook.ps, I get:

% ps2ascii texbook.ps
Error: /undefined in ch-xoff
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- --nostringval--   0
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- --nostringval--
  2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
false   1   %stopped_push   2   3   %oparray_pop 2   3   %oparray_pop   2   3  
%oparray_pop   .runexec2 --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2
  %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1106/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:92/200(L)--
--dict:94/300(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 4601
GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I get the same error with 6.52 (on Red Hat Linux 7.3):

% ps2ascii texbook.ps
Error: /undefined in ch-xoff
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- --nostringval--   0
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- --nostringval--
  2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
false   1   %stopped_push   2   3   %oparray_pop 2   3   %oparray_pop   2   3  
%oparray_pop   .runexec2 --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2
  %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1092/1476(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:87/200(L)--
--dict:94/300(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 4601
GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

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Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2004-11-29 16:28:35 UTC 
Still there in ghostscript-7.07-33
Comment 2 petrosyan 2005-06-16 17:00:06 UTC 
This bug has been fixed in ghostscript-8.15-0.rc3.3 which is available in Fedora
 Core development.
Comment 3 Peter van Egdom 2006-06-24 07:48:22 UTC 
Confirmed fixed in "ghostscript-8.15.2-1.1" on Fedora Core release 5 :

[peterve@peanut ~]$ ps2ascii -version
ESP Ghostscript 8.15.2 (2006-04-19)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
[peterve@peanut ~]$ ps2ascii texbook.ps test.txt
[peterve@peanut ~]$ echo $?
0
[peterve@peanut ~]$ rpm -q ghostscript
ghostscript-8.15.2-1.1