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Bug#536871: texlive-base-bin: dvipdft crashes with floating point exception



Hi Sascha,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:17:41PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> dvipdft crashes with a floating point exception:
> 
> sascha.silbe@twin:~/text/briefe/2009$ latex mini.tex
> [latex output skipped]
> sascha.silbe@twin:~/text/briefe/2009$ dvipdft -o mini.pdf mini.dvi
> dvipdft: running dvipdfm -o mini.pdf -e -z0 mini.dvi
> 
> mini.dvi -> mini.pdf
> [1]
> 86009 bytes written
> dvipdft: running gs
> GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29)
> Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Processing pages 1 through 1.
> Page 1
> /usr/bin/dvipdft: line 118: 31436 Floating point exceptiongs -r10
> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=png256 -sOutputFile="$tmpdir/$outBase.%d"
> "$outfile"
> dvipdft: gs failed.
> 
> 
> Not sure whether dvipdft is generating invalid input for gs or gs is
> failing for different reasons, so filing against texlive-base-bin as
> it's the only place I currently hit the bug. Feel free to reassign
> as appropriate.

I'm afraid, I can't even reproduce your bug. Tested in a clean lenny
chroot with neccessary texlive packages installed to compile your
minimal example. See:

motte:/tmp/tex# latex mini.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./mini.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
dumylang, noh
yphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/g-brief/g-brief.cls
Document Class: g-brief 2003/05/08 v4.0.1 g-brief class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/letter.cls
Document Class: letter 1999/04/29 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/germanb.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `German'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.

)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/eurofont/europs.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/eurosym/eurosym.sty)) (./mini.aux)
[1]
(./mini.aux) )
Output written on mini.dvi (1 page, 524 bytes).
Transcript written on mini.log.
motte:/tmp/tex# dvipdft -o mini.pdf mini.dvi
dvipdft: running dvipdfm -o mini.pdf -e -z0 mini.dvi

mini.dvi -> mini.pdf
[1]
86009 bytes written
dvipdft: running gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29)
Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
dvipdft: running dvipdfm -dt -o mini.pdf mini.dvi

mini.dvi -> mini.pdf
[1]
18774 bytes written
motte:/tmp/tex#


Hauke

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