Summary: | =app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.04-r4 =media-libs/freetype-2.4.9 produce Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1 when converting PS to PDF | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Adam Randall <randalla> |
Component: | [OLD] Printing | Assignee: | Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | pk1, printing, razamatan, sh, tsigarid |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | 410983 | ||
Bug Blocks: | |||
Attachments: | test.ps referenced in examples |
Description
Adam Randall
2012-03-16 18:07:33 UTC
Created attachment 305641 [details]
test.ps referenced in examples
This is a postscript file that was created using a2ps. It's an output log of my server update script, and it includes color codes. If you convert this to PDF, expect to see the color codes printed instead of colorized.
Same issue for me, on several machines. I downgraded one to 2.4.8, with the same success. Cannot easily do the same to the other one, as the 2.4.8 version is not in the tree anymore. I think a good measure would be to put it back in there, and flag 2.4.9 as unstable, unless the problem can really be fixed. (In reply to comment #2) > Same issue for me, on several machines. > I downgraded one to 2.4.8, with the same success. Cannot easily do the same > to the other one, as the 2.4.8 version is not in the tree anymore. I think a > good measure would be to put it back in there, and flag 2.4.9 as unstable, > unless the problem can really be fixed. I doubt we'll see 2.4.8 back as it seems that it has a bunch of security related issues, at least from this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407257 Maybe ghostscript needs an update to work better with 2.4.9? I don't know. Adam. (In reply to comment #3) > I doubt we'll see 2.4.8 back as it seems that it has a bunch of security > related issues, at least from this: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407257 > > Maybe ghostscript needs an update to work better with 2.4.9? I don't know. > > Adam. Indeed, I was not aware of that. I tried to upgrade ghostscript-9.05, with no joy. Same issue here. But I first noticed the problem after I uninstalled the corefont package and added the symlinks under /etc/font/cond.d in order to use the liberation font package instead. I am very sure that I had a working installation with freetype-2.4.9, ghostscript-9.04 and corefonts before. But after undoing these changes, the error remained. I executed equery d 'media-libs/freetype:2' and re-compiled everything that depends on freetype except the KDE stuff (kdelibs, okular, etc.), mplayer and libreoffice. No improvement. ghostscript upstream says this problem is caused by following bugs in freetype 2.4.9: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?35847 https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?35833 The fixes are already in the freetype repo. Thanks Rafał. Fixed in 2.4.9-r1. I'll leave this open until it goes stable. (In reply to comment #7) > Thanks Rafał. Fixed in 2.4.9-r1. I'll leave this open until it goes stable. Stable on many arches now. Thanks everyone. |