Bug 147467

Summary:	pdf support broken in ghostscript-gpl-5.52 with both gv-3.6.1-r3 and ggv-2.8.5
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jozsef Daniel <simius>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jozsef Daniel 2006-09-13 08:58:30 UTC

I can't open pdf files with ghostscript-based applications since I installed my new Gentoo system.

GGV doesn't even appear to support pdf files - doesn't list them in browse mode, and refuses to display them with a "not a valid postscript document" message.

GV does display their FIRST page, but no more, and gives an error message about a gs call having failed.
The output on the terminal is as follows:

Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--
Operand stack:
   PDFfile   (/Handbook\\ for\\ Bloggers\\ and\\ Cyberdissidents\\ \\\(GB\\\).pdf)   (r)
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:1122/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 1911
GPL Ghostscript 8.54: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

This is extremely strange. Evince and poppler are a great way of viewing pdf files, but still, I don't like broken functionality.

Comment 1 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-18 02:12:40 UTC

does it work with ghostscript-esp by any chance? Since gv is rather unmaintained I dont think this issue will get fixed upstream and I dont want to fix it myself either ..