Bug 149607 – kde-base/kghostview-3.5.4 garbles certain ps files

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Raphael 2006-09-30 04:15:13 UTC]

If I make a simple postscript file I can view it in gv and kghostview just fine. However, if I make a one page latex file such as

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

%opening
\title{}
\author{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}

\end{abstract}

\section{}

\centerline{\includegraphics[scale=0.35,angle=270]{radix-runtime}}

\end{document}


then latex and dvips it it views fine in gv but is garbled in kghostview. A screenshot is in the above URL.  I asked on irc and a few people were able to reproduce the problem.

It seems it is definitely a problem with kghostview. ps to pdf and then later viewed in kpdf works fine.

kghostview --version
Qt: 3.3.4
KDE: 3.5.4
KGhostView: 0.20


Raphael

emerge --info

Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.16-rc5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-rc5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre12
Last Sync: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:00:08 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.0-r2, 2.0.26-r5
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
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-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8  -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8  -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/  ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac alsa aotuv artworkextra avi berkdb bindinst bitmap-fonts bootsplash browserplugin cli crypt cups dba dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fame firefox font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gif ginac gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 irc isdnlog jabber java jpeg kde kernel_linux lzw lzw-tiff mad mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qhull qt3 qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection rss sdl session spell spl ssl subtitles svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo vorbis wmp wxgtk1 wxwindows xorg xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Raphael 2006-09-30 04:16:17 UTC]

Created attachment 98434 [details]
Sample postscript file that kghostview garbles

[Comment 2 Raphael 2006-09-30 04:30:11 UTC]

Created attachment 98436 [details]
Sample that is garbled when in a latex doc but not on its own

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-09-30 05:26:03 UTC]

There's no point to let two developer teams work concurrently on it, Raphael. When you're sure you've found a KDE specific problem, please file your bug at bugs.kde.org, if you're unsure file it here - bug please not both.

Upstream issue, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134898

[Comment 4 Raphael 2006-09-30 05:50:34 UTC]

I sincerely hope the kde team don't reply "it's a gentoo issue" as people are wont to do :)

To be honest I am not sure so maybe the kde bug should point here instead?

Raphael

[Comment 5 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-09-30 06:55:19 UTC]

This is definitely not a Gentoo issue.

[Comment 6 Raphael 2006-09-30 15:15:44 UTC]

The problem appears to be gentoo specific after all. I have checked with a dozen or so people and it is not reproducible using the same kghostview version on fedora, freebsd or archlinux (the distros people happened to have). It is reproducible on gentoo according to #gentoo and #gentoo-amd64.

I am worried this will get lost between kde and b.g.o now.  Does gentoo have a different set of fonts installed by default maybe?

Raphael

[Comment 7 Raphael 2006-09-30 15:30:03 UTC]

I have found the cause.  If you unclick "use platform fonts" in kghostview the problem goes away.

Raphael