Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 149202
Postscript files do not display in any viewer
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:00 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I am running a rather vanilla FC3 setup on three different workstations: dual Athlon MP, single Athlon XP, and single P4. I use KDE as my desktop on all three boxes. If I choose to print to a postscript file on any of the machines, I end up with a *.ps file that displays nothing but blank pages in all of gv, ggv, and kghostscript. If I open any of these *.ps files using my MacOS X workstation, the Preview application opens and displays them without incident. In other words, the postscript files would appear to be fine; it's just that the Fedora-based viewers won't display correctly. What seems to be related is that 'ps2pdf' fails to output a usable *.pdf document. No matter what, the resultant *.pdf files are always exactly 321 Bytes, plain text files with postscript-looking messages. While I have a hard time believing this feature would be broken on a large scale and seemingly nobody is complaining about it, I also have a hard time understanding how this problem has manifested on all of my FC3 workstations. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Print a file to PS or PDF from within KDE 2. Open the resulting files in gv, ggv, or Kghostscript 3. See nothing but white, regardless of the page count Actual Results: If I chose to print to PDF, I ended up with invalid PDF files. If I chose to print to PS, I ended up with postscript files that I could not read from within FC3 (I had to verify their validity using MacOS X). Expected Results: I should have gotten valid PDF files or PS files that I could view using any of the standard viewers. Additional info: All three of my systems have nVidia video cards with the binary driver. This is about the only common hardware between them.
Which application do you print from?
strange, i have tried to verify the problem with your steps on machine with FC3. I can print from konqueror/kolourpaint/kwrire/kdate in PDF and PS, which can be viewed with ggc or kghostview without any problem. It looks like you have printed from non-kde-application!
sorry for typo, i mean konqueror/kolourpaint/kwrite/kate and ggv
(This is a mass update to bugs which have been in NEEDINFO unmodified for over a year and are for a currently unsupported version of Fedora Core.) Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version for which this bug is confirmed. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier.