I found that both ghostscript 7.0x and ghostscript-afpl 8.15 (which gs keeps defining as "GPL Ghostscript 8.15") show problems while converting some (latex+dvips generated) postscript files: ps2pdf12 prova.ps GPL Ghostscript 8.15: ERROR -15 closing the device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation. ps2pdf14 prova.ps GPL Ghostscript 8.15: ERROR -15 closing the device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation. ps2pdf13 prova.ps GPL Ghostscript 8.15: ERROR -15 closing the device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation. This can be intended as a Gentoo-related bug in two ways: 1) With other builds of ghostscript (such, e.g., an old SuSE 8.1 with ESP Ghostscript 7.05) it worked fine on every file (included the bug-generating one ;-) 2) I found that ghostscript-afpl 8.50 solves this problem, but, unfortunately there is no ebuild for it, nor stable nor unstable. I checked for ghostscript-afpl 8.50 in bus, but seems that ebuild construction for this package has stopped... I verified this bug over four x86 gentoo-linux boxes. Michele Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Take the right file, such, e.g. http://www.tlc.unipr.it/mfrance/gs_bug.ps 2. run "ps2pdf gs_bug.ps" (or ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14) 3. Enjoy error message ;-) Actual Results: >ps2pdf12 prova.ps GPL Ghostscript 8.15: ERROR -15 closing the device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation. > Expected Results: >ps2pdf12 prova.ps > and prova.pdf present in the directory I believe this bug is major since pdf creation is a key feature of every GNU/Linux system.
still happens with 8.53?
