Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 162897
ps2pdf Unrecoverable error
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:09 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: ps2pdf fails to convert this simple input which produces one page with 4 copies of the C,D scales of a sliderule. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ghostscript-7.07-40 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ps2pdf --verbose sliderule.ps >/tmp/foo.pdf 2. 3. Actual Results: $ ps2pdf --verbose sliderule.ps >/tmp/foo.pdf GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 $ Expected Results: Generate /tmp/foo.pdf Additional info: A careful reading of "man ps2pdf" suggests that the commandline syntax should be "ps2pdf sliderule.ps - >/tmp/foo.pdf". If so, then the actual behavior "Unrecoverable error" is a gross usability bug because the message is not related to the error, and gives the user no clue as to what to change in order to obtain the obviously-desired functionality. A message such as "ps2pdf requires exactly two [non-optional] commandline arguments" is required.
Created attachment 116604 [details] PostScript input file 1.6KB
There is no such option '--verbose'.
Yes there is such an option '--verbose'. This transcript shows that --verbose exists, and its use alters the behavior of ps2pdf, mostly in an expected way. --verbose gives a diagnostic message on stderr instead of just an exit status code. --verbose also changes the exit code from fail [1] to success [0], while the usually-expected behavior would be to leave the exit code the same. ----- $ ps2pdf sliderule.ps >/tmp/foo.pdf $ echo $? 1 ## ps2pdf failed $ ps2pdf --verbose sliderule.ps >/tmp/foo.pdf GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 $ echo $? 0 ## ps2pdf "succeeded" $ ls -l /tmp/foo.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 1 jreiser jreiser 50 Jul 11 08:40 /tmp/foo.pdf $ cat /tmp/foo.pdf ## intended output is ghostscript error traceback Copyright (C) 2003 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Error: /undefinedfilename in (-q) Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1058/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:69/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 $ ----- Please re-open this bug.
No, there is no such option as '--verbose'. You are using ps2pdf incorrectly.