From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: ps2ascii broken Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.echo "\documentclass{article}\begin{document}Hello World\end{document}" > hello.tex 2.latex hello ; dvips hello -o hello.ps ; ps2pdf hello.ps 3.ps2ascii hello.ps ; ps2ascii hello.pdf Actual Results: [pete@madrone pete]$ ps2ascii hello.ps Error: /undefined in ch-xoff Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 0 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 2 3 %oparray_pop 2 3 %oparray_pop 2 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1106/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:92/200(L)-- --dict:94/300(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 Current file position is 4371 GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 [pete@madrone pete]$ ps2ascii hello.pdf \Gamma \Theta \Delta \Xi \Lambda \Pi \Lambda \Upsilon \Sigma \Psi \Phi \Omega \Sigma fifffl\Lambda fflffi i [pete@madrone pete]$ Expected Results: I should see "Hello World" Additional info: <rant>Spent two hours doing a wordcount by hand on a manuscript. can't get dvi2tty or dvitty to compile on RH8 either.</rant>
This is a known problem. ps2ascii has special code to get better results from TeX files but the code suffers from byte rot. Fixing this will take about 1 man-day .
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.