[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #1433: When compiling ESP GS with shared library "libgs", ps2pdf soes not work any more
Till Kamppeter
till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Mon Feb 20 13:11:08 PST 2006
[STR New]
I have the same scenario as in STR #1419
http://www.cups.org/espgs/str.php?U1419
and there also the following bug occurs:
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21150
Generate simple PDF file with ("gs" is linked to /usr/bin/gsx)
echo "hello" > test.txt
a2ps test.txt -o test.ps
ps2pdf test.ps test.pdf
When opening test.pdf with:
- kghostview -> blank page
- acroread -> "An unrecognized token '0,1' was found."
- xpdf -> appears a 'test.txt' image with a big font in
the upper left corner of the page rotated by 90
degrees
If I link the "gs" command to a conventional GhostScript, which does not
use "libgs", all works fine. The test.pdf is generated correctly then and
displayed correctly by all the mentioned programs.
There seems something to be broken when dividing up GhostScript into the
shared library libgs and the small gsx executable.
I think that it is not viable for Linux distributions to have a
conventional GhostScript AND libgs, as this duplicates a bug piece of code
on the disk and also sometimes in memory. So gsx should replace the
conventional GhostScript.
ESP GhostScript is rev 128, both for this STR and STR #1419.
Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1433
Version: 8.15-current
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