Bug 160294 – app-text/ghostscript-{gnu,gpl} patch request: /invalidfont in --show-- when trying to convert the PDF file

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ed Catmur 2007-01-05 09:58:27 UTC]

Requesting patch from http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2006-July/006677.html to fix http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688536

This applies to ghostscript-gnu 8.54 and ghostscript-gpl-8.54.

Needed to build lilypond 2.10 documentation (bug 132706).

Testcase:

%!PS-Adobe-2.0
(/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf) (r) file .loadfont
10 10 moveto
/LuxiMono 12 selectfont
/r glyphshow

$ gs -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=foo.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f foo.eps

[Comment 1 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2007-02-15 15:39:40 UTC]

Ed, is this fixed in ghostscript-gnu-8.55?

[Comment 2 Ed Catmur 2007-02-15 16:04:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Ed, is this fixed in ghostscript-gnu-8.55?

No, the patch still applies.

[Comment 3 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2007-02-28 18:25:56 UTC]

Ed, can you provide a patch for one of the ghostscript ebuilds and attach the patch to this bug? I'm having some trouble getting it to apply.

[Comment 4 Ed Catmur 2007-02-28 23:57:40 UTC]

Created attachment 111640 [details, diff]
688536-bugs.ghostscript.com-invalidfont.patch

This is tested against ghostscript-gpl-8.54.

[Comment 5 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2007-03-02 16:44:46 UTC]

Created attachment 111814 [details]
foo.ps

Ed, can you reproduce on the attached ps?

[Comment 6 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2007-03-02 16:46:43 UTC]

Created attachment 111815 [details]
foo.ps

I mean this one.

[Comment 7 Ed Catmur 2007-03-03 12:20:21 UTC]

Yes, fully reproducible (i.e. the bug shows up when compiled without the patch, and disappears when compiled with the patch).

[Comment 8 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2007-03-03 13:14:54 UTC]

I asked because I noticed no difference in behaviour myself. What are the respective outputs?

[Comment 9 Ed Catmur 2007-03-03 23:18:47 UTC]

Without patch:
$ gs -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=foo.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f foo.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.54 (2006-05-17)
Copyright (C) 2006 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Error: /invalidfont in --glyphshow--
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1126/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 118
GPL Ghostscript 8.54: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

With patch:
$ gs -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=foo.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f foo.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.54 (2006-05-17)
Copyright (C) 2006 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
$ echo $?
0

/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf is from font-bh-ttf.

[Comment 10 Didier Link 2007-05-08 15:57:52 UTC]

I've just tested the ps file with the last gnu gs package (8.56.0) and the file is interpreted correctly.

I submit a new ebuild for this new gnu version. Can you test it after portage tree update ?

Thanks for report it with a test case !

[Comment 11 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) 2007-06-13 12:30:05 UTC]

Tested this, too with ghostscript-gpl-8.57 and it seems to work.

# gs -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=foo.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f foo.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
Copyright (C) 2007 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.

# pdfinfo foo.pdf
Producer:       GPL Ghostscript 8.57
CreationDate:   Wed Jun 13 12:10:10 2007
ModDate:        Wed Jun 13 12:10:10 2007
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      5483 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4

[Comment 12 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2007-10-21 18:03:15 UTC]

seems to be fixed. If not please reopen.