Bug#63797: dvips produces bad postcript

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.6-6
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/dvips


(or perhaps I am wrong, it might be gs's fault).

Use the following latex code (a.tex):

(currently needs tetex-nonfree for seminar.sty).

--- cut ---
% $Id: report.tex,v 1.3 1999/09/12 10:33:56 bam Exp $

\documentclass[a4,semlayer,semcolor] {seminar}
\input{seminar.bug}
\input{seminar.bg2}

\title{Crashing Tutorial}

\begin{document}

\begin{slide}
What is Crashing?
\begin{itemize}
\item Crashing who you are to somebody else. 
\end{itemize}

\overlay{1}
Why is crashing important?
\end{slide}

Crashing is \textit{not} the same as collisions. Here are some
examples why this is the case:

\end{document}
--- cut ---


Compile with:

latex a.tex && dvips a.dvi -o a.ps

view under X-Windows with:

>gs a.ps 
GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17)
Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

Error: /undefined in BOL
Operand stack:
   (all)
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   2   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   5   5   %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:776/809--   --dict:0/20--   --dict:55/200--   --dict:115/300--   --dict:75/200--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 38348

I can send you the postscript code if required.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux snoopy 2.2.14 #1 Sat Feb 12 07:49:10 EST 2000 i686

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debianutils                  1.13.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-perl                    0.1-3.0     Perl interface modules for dpkg   
ii  ed                           0.2-18      The classic unix line editor      
ii  libc6                        2.1.3-10    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpng2                      1.0.5-1     PNG library - runtime             
ii  libstdc++2.10                1:2.95.2-10 The GNU stdc++ library            
ii  tetex-base                   1.0-10      basic teTeX library files         
ii  tetex-lib                    1.0.6-6     shared libkpathsea for teTeX      
ii  xlib6g                       3.3.6-6     shared libraries required by X cli
ii  zlib1g [libz1]               1:1.1.3-5   compression library - runtime