Description of problem: Images of extension eps won't display via xdvi in fc6 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tetex-xdvi-3.0-34.fc6, xdvik version 22.84.9 (Xaw toolkit), Libraries: kpathsea version 3.5.4, T1lib version 5.0.1, doesn't display eps images. tetex-xdvi-3.0-10.FC4, xdvik version 22.84.9 (@(#)Motif Version 2.2.3, runtime version 2.2), Libraries: kpathsea version 3.5.4, T1lib version 5.0.1, does display the images. How reproducible: Executing a dvi file with the images. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: No image in the output of xdvi Expected results: An image in the output from xdvi Additional info:
Further analysis with xdvi folks indicates that the problem is with Ghostscript 8.15.4 rather than xdvi. I have an eps file that won't open a display unless the option -sDEVICE=x11alpha is used with gs. This eps file opens as expected without any options in older gs versions. This version is as follows: > gs -version ESP Ghostscript 8.15.4 (2007-03-14) Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. You may download this eps file from the following location: http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~goisman/tests/f4.1_eddington.eps.tar.gz Thanks for your help in advance.
I tried to display the image you put here and it works for me even with -sDEVICE=x11 and other devices, I'm also using gs-8.15.4, on rawhide though.
Great! But does it work without options, i.e., gs f4.1_eddington.eps? I already said below it works with gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha f4.1_eddington.eps. As I also said gs f4.1_eddington.eps works on fedora releases prior to fc6(Zod). I'm really not interested in developmental releases, i.e., rawhide, as Zod already presents challenges, e.g., mysql 5.0 where the file format changed from ISAM to MyISAM. The problem still exists on fc6 using gs-8.15.4. That is namely gs f4.1_eddington.eps doesn't work. And, when gs is used by xdvi, unless xdvi -nogssafer file.dvi is used, it doesn't works. For now our users are using the work around (xdvi -nogssafer file.dvi), but they're worried since on previous fc releases and EL this workaround isn't necessary. Hopefully, this can be fixed soon. I've already got users wanting to migrate to Adobe Illustrator. Cheers, Phil
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