summary says all: gv does not open pdf files with a space in their names correctly * app-text/gv Latest version Available: 3.5.8-r1 Latest version Installed: 3.5.8-r1 here's an error that gets displayed Execution of gs -dNODISPLAY -dQUIET -sPDFname=/home/navreet/Desktop/PDFfiles/Devil Manual.pdf -sDSCname=/home/navreet/gv_3d62ae38_1_1DevIL Manual.pdf.tmp pdf2dsc.ps -c quit failed
first of all, this is neither a gentoo-specific nor a gv-specific bug. The cause of the bug is simply PEBCAK. Try prefacing the space in the name with \
i ALWAYS use tab completion, and it puts the "\ " in them! Please, don't insult me and say PEBCAK again. The same thing happens still! Maybe I should report to the gv ppl, but it is definately not the fault of the user! navreet@192 navreet $ gv /mnt/media/navreet/Desktop/PDFfiles/noise\ improvements.pdf Error: /undefinedfilename in (improvements.pdf) Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1048/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:68/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 7.05.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 navreet@192 navreet $
navreet, did you hear from the upstream authors on this issue?
Navreet: I agree, it's definately a problem in the gv source. When you do an strace, you can see it match the filename and then try to match filename.ps, which fails. I tried looking at the source but it was a bit too much to follow in short time, so I propose you tell the gv developers... Wout.
spanky, see if you can do some investigations upstream about this, please?
when i do this: root@vapier CS4341 # gv cps\ bs.ps it works ...
please reopen after providing this information: emerge -V emerge info emerge -s ghostscript ^gv$ i'm using gv-3.5.8-r2 and ghostscript-7.05.5 and have no problems when i run `gv cps\ bs.ps` ...
