Re: [Cooker] 9.0 ghostscript bug
Can you post some example text files? Till Franco Silvestro wrote: Also I noticed yesterday a problem in printing text files with programs as Kwrite,Kate or others... it seems I can preview but when I print some random portion of text disappears on paper ...it can be also that a ghostscript filter text to ps problem(xpdq text file printing has no problem and all is printed...) cu...;o) On Friday 18 October 2002 17:16, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: 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. [...] 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). [...]
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 ghostscript bug
Also I noticed yesterday a problem in printing text files with programs as Kwrite,Kate or others... it seems I can preview but when I print some random portion of text disappears on paper ...it can be also that a ghostscript filter text to ps problem(xpdq text file printing has no problem and all is printed...) cu...;o) On Friday 18 October 2002 17:16, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: > 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. [...] > 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). [...] -- Franco Silvestro c/o CeSIA - Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita' di Bologna Current uptime : 16 days 6 hours 23 minutes --- Fri Oct 18 17:58:08 CEST 2002 --- Linux 2.4.19-16mdksmp #1 SMP Fri Sep 20 16:08:37 CEST 2002 Two Processors Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.00GHz 1024M RAM 7890.52 Bogomips Total
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 ghostscript bug
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
[Cooker] 9.0 ghostscript bug
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
