Bug 652152 - gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha pdf crashes
Summary: gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha pdf crashes
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ghostscript
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-11 07:20 UTC by Jonathan Ryshpan
Modified: 2011-09-26 23:28 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ghostscript-9.04-3.fc15
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-09-26 23:28:12 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Government report displayable by acrpread but not by gv. (290.00 KB, application/pdf)
2010-11-11 07:20 UTC, Jonathan Ryshpan
no flags Details

Description Jonathan Ryshpan 2010-11-11 07:20:55 UTC
Created attachment 459669 [details]
Government report displayable by acrpread but not by gv.

Description of problem: gv fails while attempting to display the contents of the latest Fiscal Commission Co Chairs Proposal, available at: http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/sites/fiscalcommission.gov/files/documents/CoChair_Draft.pdf

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gv-3.7.1-1.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ gv CoChair_Draft-1.pdf
  
Actual results:
Page 1 doesn't display.  Pages 2,3,4 do.  Page 5 doesn't. etc

Expected results:
All pages display.

Additional info:
acroread displays this without trouble but can't print it.  I suspect the printing problem is related to the issues with gv.

Comment 1 M. Steinborn 2010-12-03 15:35:15 UTC
I tried the linked PDF (suppose it's the same as attached to this bug report) - using GPL ghostscript 9.0 and GNU ghosrscript 8.71.0 (both with same results):

gs -sDEVICE=x11 CoChair_Draft.pdf          works

whereas

gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha   CoChair_Draft.pdf     crashes


Consequently,

gv --noantialias CoChair_Draft.pdf

works for me, as it uses "-sDEVICE=x11", whereas

gv --antialias CoChair_Draft.pdf

resp. (unless you haven't changed the default settings)

gv -CoChair_Draft.pdf

are crashing, because they use "-sDEVICE=x11alpha".


So that's a ghostscript bug, isn't it?

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2010-12-03 15:55:32 UTC
Reassigning...

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Comment 4 M. Steinborn 2011-05-30 15:31:00 UTC
According to http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689734 this bug has been fixed in rev 12380 of ghostscript, and indeed, using Ghostscript 9.02 + patch 12380, the example file of this bug report is working as expected.

Looking at the latest koji build, I haven't seen this patch (I admit I only looked at your (i.e. Tim's changelog). So I assume Fedora 14, 15 and Rawhide have this bug, too.

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2011-05-31 10:58:59 UTC
Thanks for investigating.

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2011-08-11 16:06:43 UTC
Fixed for Fedora 15 in ghostscript-9.04-1.fc15.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2011-08-11 16:24:59 UTC
ghostscript-9.04-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-9.04-1.fc15

Comment 8 Jonathan Ryshpan 2011-08-11 17:15:57 UTC
Thanks to all - jon

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2011-08-12 10:58:41 UTC
Package ghostscript-9.04-1.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ghostscript-9.04-1.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-9.04-1.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2011-08-17 01:12:47 UTC
Package ghostscript-9.04-2.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ghostscript-9.04-2.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-9.04-2.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2011-08-23 04:25:08 UTC
Package ghostscript-9.04-3.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ghostscript-9.04-3.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-9.04-3.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2011-09-26 23:27:44 UTC
ghostscript-9.04-3.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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