From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 Description of problem: I've had trouble with old idraw files giving the following error message in recent versions of ghostscript on Redhat Linux. I haven't been able to find any related bug reports in the ghostscript bug list. Specificially, the attached idraw file (created with idraw 1.0.6 with the text string "bar" in it), the gv the file using ghostscript-6.52-9.4 on Redhat 7.3, it gives the following error message: gs ~/NOTES/200208/idraw_failing_in_ghostscript_020808.idraw GNU Ghostscript 6.52 (2001-10-20) 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... 2418892 1059509 1622424 328620 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2757092 1364390 1642520 336084 0 done. Error: /rangecheck in --get-- Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- descender 0 --nostringval-- 1 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1035/1476(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:90/200(L)-- --dict:36/51(L)-- --dict:1/17(L)-- --dict:5/17(L)-- --dict:1/3(L)-- --dict:13/14(ro)(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 10606 GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Position 10438 is the first character of the "End" just after the "] Text" line in the file. (FYI, idraw's native file format is postscript with idraw-specific comments. This problem didn't happen on Redhat Linux 7.2, but it persists even if I downgrade ghostview in RH 7.3 to the 7.2 version (ghostscript-6.51-12). (Suggesting perhaps it's a library problem, rather than a problem directly in ghostscript.) The problem persists in rehdat 8.0 beta with ghostscript-7.05-20. (I haven't been able to test gs-7.30.) The idraw folks seemt to think this is a ghostscript bug since the idraw files that used to work no longer do. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PUBLIC/idraw_failing_in_ghostscript_020808.idraw> (the extension is .idraw but it's really a postscript file) 2. try and ghostview it (run "gv idraw_failing_in_ghostscript_020808.idraw") Under RH 7.2 this succeeded, under RH 7.3 it fails with the error gs ~/NOTES/200208/idraw_failing_in_ghostscript_020808.idraw GNU Ghostscript 6.52 (2001-10-20) 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... 2418892 1059509 1622424 328620 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2757092 1364390 1642520 336084 0 done. Error: /rangecheck in --get-- Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- descender 0 --nostringval-- 1 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1035/1476(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:90/200(L)-- --dict:36/51(L)-- --dict:1/17(L)-- --dict:5/17(L)-- --dict:1/3(L)-- --dict:13/14(ro)(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 10606 GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Actual Results: GNU Ghostscript 6.52 (2001-10-20) 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... 2418892 1059509 1622424 328620 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2757092 1364390 1642520 336084 0 done. Error: /rangecheck in --get-- Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- descender 0 --nostringval-- 1 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1035/1476(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:90/200(L)-- --dict:36/51(L)-- --dict:1/17(L)-- --dict:5/17(L)-- --dict:1/3(L)-- --dict:13/14(ro)(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 10606 GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Expected Results: It should render an image of a black square and the text "bar" in the ghostscript window. Additional info: The problem's been reported both to the idraw (ivtools-users.net) and ghostscript (bug-ghostscript) maintainers, but it's not clear if it's an idraw problem (bad postscript only now caught) a ghostscript problem (a too strict or buggy interpreter) or some sort of interaction with libraries (suggested by the fact that downgrading to the RH 7.2 ghostscript doesn't fix the problem).
The sample file is incorrect. It assumes that FontBBox is an executable array. Although many fonts are designed this way there is no such requiriment in the spec. Probably, different RH versions install different fonts. The file should be changed as following to work with both executable and literal arrays. *** test.ps Mon Oct 14 00:02:53 2002 --- test-hacked.ps Mon Oct 14 00:53:20 2002 *************** *** 362,368 **** gsave fgred fggreen fgblue setrgbcolor /fontDict printFont printSize scalefont dup setfont def ! /descender fontDict begin 0 [FontBBox] 1 get FontMatrix end transform exch pop def /vertoffset 1 printSize sub descender sub def { 0 vertoffset moveto show --- 362,368 ---- gsave fgred fggreen fgblue setrgbcolor /fontDict printFont printSize scalefont dup setfont def ! /descender fontDict begin 0 /FontBBox load 1 get FontMatrix end transform exch pop def /vertoffset 1 printSize sub descender sub def { 0 vertoffset moveto show
twaugh, can you close this bug? alexcher's patch fixes it (thanks!), indicating that this is an idraw bug, not a ghostscript bug. I have passed the bug report back to ivtools-users.
Thanks.
*** Bug 65335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***