Bug#909076: ghostscript: ps2ascii crashes: Error: /typecheck in --.bind--
Hi Markus,
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:33:06PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe I have found the solution to this problem. Apparently they
> changed the underlying device for ps2ascii to txtwrite last year.
>
> http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=2fa6beaa40144c592661a611bf35ff6f06d3354f
>
> If I apply this commit in Jessie, ps2ascii appears to work again. I
> tested it with two example ps files from
>
> https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Psfiles.htm#Art
>
> alphabet.ps and waterfal.ps
>
> The text is correctly displayed now in Jessie but the Stretch version
> shows Chinese characters instead. Hence I would appreciate it if you
> could double-check and verify the output on your terminals.
The commit might be part indeed of the solution, that is to switch to
the txtwrite device. In the bisect I did, I already used as well a
variant with using the txtwrite device. This is what lead to
previously posted git bisect log (with commits between a broken one in
the 9.20 series, up to the a less broken one[*], and in each iteration
always applying as strategy the mentioned commit for fixing the CVE
and which caused the regression, and calling gs directly with the
needed parameter using the txtwrite device).
I know already that e.g. using the commit
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=cc746214644deacd5233a1453ce660573af09443
(*and* using the txtwrite device) seems to improve the situation. But
there are still dispalying discrepancies and regressions with test
files. So this is not enough for the stretch built at least :-/.
In the jessie patched version, you did exact the same documents with
old version and with patched one for e.g. alpahet.ps and waterfall.ps?
Regards,
Salvatore
[*] I'm saying it explicitly this way, because the rendered output,
will have in those situations as well already regressions, but
not anymore just "completely broken output".
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