Bug#327844: gs-esp: Even more info
Package: gs-esp
Version: 8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2.1
Followup-For: Bug #327844
I have also had this problem. I was making LaTeX documents with a lot of
EPS graphics in it, converted from bitmaps by both GIMP and XSane (both
generated totally different looking PostScript). When converting the DVI
file to PDF with dvipdfm (which uses gs to convert the images), I had a
problem. The resulting PDF file would view fine with gpdf and xpdf, but
not with Adobe's Acrobat Reader. When converting the file to PostScript
with dvips, the PostScript appeared just fine and was printable by a
PostScript printer. However, any conversion to PDF which uses gs (so,
also ps2pdf) gave me a PDF file which could not be viewed with Acrobat
Reader. Also printing it to the same PostScript printer gave errors,
even from gpdf/xpdf.
Strangely enough, the problem did not occur for all images.
All problems disappeared when using gs-gpl or gs-afpl. If you need some
more examples of images that failed with gs-eps, let me know and I'll
provide them.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gs-esp depends on:
ii gs-common 0.3.9 Common files for different Ghostsc
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff4 3.7.4-1 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gs-esp recommends:
ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii psfontmgr 0.11.8-0.1 PostScript font manager -- part of
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