Package: gv
Version: 1:3.7.2-1
Severity: normal
Hi!
I think I found an awkward regression.
After the following upgrade on Debian testing systems:
[UPGRADE] gv 1:3.7.1-3 - 1:3.7.2-1
gv behaves in a very strange way with EPS files.
It sometimes fails to read the bounding box, and thus displays the EPS
file in A4 layout, without allowing the user to switch to BBox layout.
The problem occurs at least with EPS files generated by the grace package,
which have the bounding box written at the end.
The really surprising fact is that gv seems to behave differently on
the *same* file, depending on how the file is passed on the gv command
line (different, yet equivalent paths)!
Steps to reproduce on my box with the attached trivial test EPS
file:
$ gv test.eps
the file is displayed in A4 layout, despite having a bounding box:
$ head -n 7 test.eps
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%Creator: Grace-5.1.22
%%CreationDate: Fri May 20 21:52:16 2011
%%DocumentData: Clean8Bit
%%Orientation: Portrait
$ tail -n 4 test.eps
%%Trailer
%%BoundingBox: 63 72 712 528
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Times-Roman
%%EOF
Please note that the bounding was not read: the BBox menu entry for
the layout is grayed out, and I cannot select it.
Now, the fun:
$ gv $HOME/tmp/TEST/test.eps
the *same* file is displayed correctly in BBox layout.
Please note that gv/1:3.7.1-3 did not show this behavior: downgrading
fixes the bug.
I hope the issue may be successfully investigated and solved soon.
Thanks for your time!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gv depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.0.3 Debian package management system
ii ghostscript-x 9.02~dfsg-2interpreter for the PostScript lan
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt61:1.1.1-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg1.5+E-18 Xaw3d widget set
Versions of packages gv recommends:
ii xaw3dg1.5+E-18 Xaw3d widget set
gv suggests no packages.
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