I can confirm this bug. I used latex to generate ps files with no errors (the files are 2 years old now), and with 9.0, i cannot see it.
stef Le Vendredi 18 Octobre 2002 17:12, Norman Carver a écrit : > I transferred a bunch of Poscript figures from my older machines to a new > 9.0 installation yesterday and found that all of the figures I have created > with GNU plotutils over the last couple of years produce errors from the > Ghostscript that is provided with MDK9.0 (and they cannot be displayed, of > course). > > Here is what I have done to confirm this is a problem with the Ghostscript > provided with MDK9.0: > (1) Verified these files display fine under the Ghostscripts provided with > MDK 8.1 and 8.2. > (2) Confirmed this problem on a 2nd fresh 9.0 installation. > (3) Files print properly when sent directly to 2 Postscript printers. > (4) Downloaded and compiled the latest stable AFPL ghostscript (7.04). It > has no trouble with any of these files. > > Thus, it seems almost certain that the ghostscript provided with MDK9.0 is > buggy. I am somewhat unsure what ghostscript MDK is shipping. The > ghostscript sites (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ and > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/) have two branches: AFPL and > GNU. The MDK9.0 version identifies itself as "ESP Ghostscript 7.05" when > it runs. Since this is the version number of the GNU version, I assume > that is what it is. Don't know why it is identified as ESP Ghostscript, > though. I have not tried to download the GNU Ghostscript 7.05 and test it. > > This is a rather serious problem given the importance of ghostscript. > It means that I cannot migrate my 8.x machines to 9.0 without a fix. > I am open to any suggestions on the best way to replace the MDK9.0 version > with the AFPL version. > > If you want an example file to test, email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Norm
