Bug 471238

Summary:	net-print/poster-20060221 produces invalid PostSript output
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	quazgar <quazgar>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436969
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch from the Fedora bug report

Description quazgar 2013-05-25 12:55:05 UTC

Created attachment 349130 [details, diff]
Patch from the Fedora bug report

poster (a ps utility to print large documents on many small pages) produces invalid output.

Okular shows nothing at all and gs shows the following error message:

Error: /syntaxerror in -file-
Operand stack:
   print_content_of_complete_page_0
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1894   1   3   %oparray_pop   1893   1   3   %oparray_pop   1877   1   3   %oparray_pop   1771   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1160/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:94/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 5304
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


I think that this is the same bug as this one at Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436969 That bug report has a patch which at least produces valid output for me here.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-27 20:03:51 UTC

*** Bug 471270 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Konstantin Münning 2013-12-18 21:53:21 UTC

I can confirm this bug on x86 and amd64, GPL Ghostscript 9.10.

Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2017-02-19 22:05:21 UTC

 	
commit 7c012a14c2f42d769e52d2bf0d3b5596856ce252
Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 19 23:03:59 2017 +0100

    net-print/poster: Add patch for bug 471238
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1

 net-print/poster/files/poster-20060221-fix_gs_crash.patch | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net-print/poster/poster-20060221-r2.ebuild                | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+)