Bug 735312

Summary:	a2ping fails with "not a GS output from gs -dSAFER"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tapio Tallgren <tapio.tallgren>
Component:	texlive	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	jnovy, pertusus, pknirsch, scottt.tw
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Description Tapio Tallgren 2011-09-02 09:36:12 UTC

Description of problem:
a2ping crashes trying to reformat a eps document into pdf 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gs 9.02

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download "perfbook" from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/perfbook.git

2. Type make. This will invoke the script utilities/eps2pdf.sh which calls 
a2ping -v --below --hires --bboxfrom=compute-gs "$basename.eps" "$basename.pdf"

3. Make fails with the file "future/be-lw-n4-rf-all.eps" (for example).
Calling "a2ping future/be-lw-n4-rf-all.eps output.pdf" directly will also crash
  
Actual results: "a2ping future/be-lw-n4-rf-all.eps output.pdf" fails with error 
"not a GS output from gs -dSAFER"

Expected results: Nicely formatted pdf file output.pdf.

Additional info: The immediate error code is due to the option "SAFER" that works differently in gs 9.02, being safer than before. If you delete the option "SAFER" from the command line passed to gs to do the conversion (by commenting out lines 747 and 748, then it seems to work ok. At least in the case above.

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