[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #1338: ps2pdf cannot create valid PDF files with images

[Till Kamppeter]

[STR New]

See

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19437

It seems that when converting PostScript files to PDF with ESP
GhostScript, images in the files are not converted correctly. The
conversion itself (using the "ps2pdf" script which comes with ESP GS)
gives no error messages, but the resulting PDF file is not correctly
displayed. gv and xpdf show the PDF file, but with broken images, acroread
gives a "Drawing error" message on pages with images and displays only the
text. In kpdf nothing is displayed and the PDF interpreter backend takes
100 % CPU (endless loop?).

An example PostScript file is attached.

The problem did not occur with ESP GhostScript 8.15.1-rc4.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1338
Version: 8.15-current
Attachment: http://www.cups.org/strfiles/1338/ecg590i_lecture10.ps