From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) Description of problem: Description of your problem: I have RH 7.2 installed and a2ps does not work, i.e. it does not produce a working ps-file in output.I have installed a2ps-4.13b-15. The same version working in a Debian distribution is working, from what I conclude that it is not a problem with the a2ps software itself. The error mesage using gs to show th e ps-file on the display is: GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28) Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2362024 982797 1622424 328124 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2639936 1238472 1642520 335588 0 done. Error: /undefined in 15,000000 Operand stack: th Execution stack: .......... GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Producing a ps-file on the Debian distribution and RH 7.2 with a2ps and making a diff on the file results in 693c551 < /th 15,000000 def --- > /th 15.000000 def 695,696c553,554 < /bfs 8,005733 def < /cw 4,803440 def --- > /bfs 8.005733 def > /cw 4.803440 def 718c576 < cw 81,400000 mul --- > cw 81.400000 mul 721c579 < 501,959430 th add --- > 501.959430 th add 759c617 < /x0 x v get 3,362408 add sx cw mul add store --- > /x0 x v get 3.362408 add sx cw mul add store 763c621 < (test.txt) (Seite 1/1) (Apr 25, 02 10:02) title --- > (test.txt) (Page 1/1) (Apr 25, 02 10:02) title 766,767c624,625 < (Gedruckt von Werner Becker) rhead < (test.txt) (1/1) (Donnerstag April 25, 2002) footer --- > (Printed by Werner Becker) rhead > (test.txt) (1/1) (Thursday April 25, 2002) footer From this and the error message it seems that on RH the number is expressed as 15,000000 whereas on Debian it is 15.00000, i.e. RH uses a "," whereas on Debian they use "." for the digit. I wonder if this could cause the error ?? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.a2ps -o test.ps test.txt on an example test.txt file (arbitrary ascii content) 2. 2. 3. Actual Results: file test.ps is created. Prinitng it with lpr -P test.ps or using ghostscript/ghostview does not print the file but crahes the viewer Expected Results: the file should be print fine on a ps-printer Additional info: see log of description above
Already fixed in a2ps-4.13b-16, in rawhide. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40532 ***