Bug#909957: Regression in ghostscript when using pstoedit (/undefined in --setpagedevice--)
Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5
After upgrade from ghostscript 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u2 to 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5, pstoedit with the option "-psarg -r9600x9600" no longer works. The following commands can be used to reproduce the issue:
$ cat test.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
text
\end{document}
$ pdflatex test.tex &> /dev/null
$ pstoedit -f plot-svg test.pdf test.svg -psarg -r9600x9600
pstoedit: version 3.70 / DLL interface 108 (built: Oct 11 2016 - release build - g++ 6.2.1 20161215 - 64-bit) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2014 Wolfgang Glunz
Error: /undefined in --setpagedevice--
Operand stack:
false --dict:1/1(L)-- --nostringval-- --dict:75/148(ro)(L)-- --dict:1/1(L)-- --dict:5/76(L)-- --dict:5/76(L)-- HWResolution
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1998 1 3 %oparray_pop 1997 1 3 %oparray_pop 1981 1 3 %oparray_pop 1868 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1961 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1213/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:297/300(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
Current file position is 85493
GPL Ghostscript 9.20: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
PostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 256 executed command : /usr/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS -r9600x9600 "/tmp/psinSrgqgy"
The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed !
$ gs -v
GPL Ghostscript 9.20 (2016-09-26)
Copyright (C) 2016 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
joe@lenny ~/test $ dpkg -l ghostscript
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===================================-======================-======================-============================================================================
ii ghostscript 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5 amd64 interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
$
After downgrading, the pstoedit command works as expected:
$ cat test.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
text
\end{document}
$ pdflatex test.tex &> /dev/null
$ pstoedit -f plot-svg test.pdf test.svg -psarg -r9600x9600
pstoedit: version 3.70 / DLL interface 108 (built: Oct 11 2016 - release build - g++ 6.2.1 20161215 - 64-bit) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2014 Wolfgang Glunz
libplot: cannot retrieve font "JQDFPK+CMR10", using default "Helvetica"
$ gs -v
GPL Ghostscript 9.20 (2016-09-26)
Copyright (C) 2016 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
$ dpkg -l ghostscript
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===================================-======================-======================-============================================================================
ii ghostscript 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u2 amd64 interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
$
Downgrade was performed with
apt install ghostscript=9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u2 libgs9=9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u2 libgs9-common=9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u2
As pstoedit works normally after downgrading ghostscript, I assume it is a regression in ghostscript. Could this be related to the regression fix mentioned in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908300 ?
This is on Debian 9 with pstoedit 3.70-3+b2.
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