Bug#487530: Doesn't render postscript files any longer

Guido Trotter ultrotter at quaqua.net
Tue Jun 24 12:05:00 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:45:39PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:

Hi!

> The postscript generated by gecko/1.8 is buggy.  Libspectre added a
> patch only recently to work around such PS files.
> 
> Older versions of evince called gs(1) to render PS; those were not
> affected by the incorrect postscript; recent versions use libspectre
> (which is a wrapper around libgs).  If your evince uses libspectre you
> need a version newer than 0.2.0.  (I only have deb on servers, so cannot
> quickly check.)
> 

I have 0.2.0.ds-1 (the only one in debian lenny/sid) and it still breaks, on
amd64. As I said it works if run from an i386 chroot... 

Thanks,

Guido







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