After an update of ghostscript today I tried to view a PS-file with gs, the file was printed from kate. The command gs showed nothing - that's why I tried to have a look of the content of that file. I can see the content with "pg" or "more", but not with "less", it shows only crap. Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://194.117.143.69 http://85.25.128.62 http://194.117.143.70" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt css cups curl dri dvd emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jai java javascript jimi joystick jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libwww live logrotate mad mbox mhash mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png pppd python qt quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba sdl session slp snmp spell spl sse sse2 ssl subversion tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib video_cards_ati input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 86636 [details] postscript file (output of lsmod)
not less's fault less uses `ps2ascii` which comes from app-text/ghostscript-esp which is what is making it look like poo run `ps2ascii foo.ps | less` and you'll get the same result
Ah, I updated ghostscript but never thought that this could be the reason: Fri May 12 10:04:22 2006 >>> unmerge success: app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r8 Fri May 12 10:04:22 2006 ::: completed emerge (1 of 1) app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1_p20060430 to /
The old version 7.x was definitly better: n22_uml ~ # ps2ascii /mnt/n22/home/tfoerste/print.ps \Gamma Error: /rangecheck in --get-- Operand stack: --nostringval-- 450 395 8059 1 --nostringval-- 1 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 2 3 %oparray_pop 2 3 %oparray_pop 2 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 2 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 5 3 %oparray_pop (\000\002\000\003\000\004\000\005\000\003\000\002\000\004\000\004\000\006) --nostringval-- %string_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1105/1417(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:178/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 Current file position is 61625 ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 whereas the version 8.15.2 produces crappy output.
current less (sys-apps/less-394) shows now nothing instead crap :-)
I think that is an upstream bug, please report it upstream to the espgs devs. If you think I can do anything for this in the gentoo ebuild now, please reopen and tell me :)
From upstream: [STR Closed w/o Resolution] Sorry, we aren't going to fix this "problem". Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1681 Version: 8.15.1 Fix Version: Will Not Fix
