On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 12:56:07PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 17:48 +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > Package: xprt-xprintorg > > Version: 0.1.0.alpha1-5 > > Severity: important > > > > Hi, > > > > When I print web pages to files with xprt-xprintorg from mozilla (the > > only way to print from mozilla) the postscript file generated is > > unreadable with gv. This happens with _all_ the pages printed to file > > from mozilla. Attached is a test file that fails at being shown. > > > > > > Most unfortunate. Can you say how exactly the page is failing? Are > there any messages?
gs opens but doesn't show anything, just a blank window. Then a warning pop-up window opens, but it's blank too, just the big button at the bottom saying 'dismiss'. I can press it and the window closes but nothing happens after that. Just plain blank window. > > Xprint output was failing under gv some time ago. I filed a bug under > gv. It seemed to us that Xprint may have been making a more > sophisticated use of Postscript, that gv wasn't expecting. > > But the problem did not occur universally. The test page I sent, which > failed for me, worked fine for both Xprint upstream and for the gv > maintainer. Eventually the bug was closed in gv and is now lost > somewhere in the archives. > > You may be guessing where I'm going with all this... the postscript file > you attached works perfectly fine on my system. Lovely coastal photos > of the National Park in Almeria. > > Because the file works on some systems in not on others, with no obvious > correlation between them, it's difficult to know where to take this bug. > > I'm using an i386 system (Pentium-M laptop). I might have supposed it > was a bug in the gv libraries, except that you're using the same i386 > (i686) libraries. right? Yep, this is a Pentium-M laptop here too. > > The only thing I can suggest is to look deeper, at gs itself. There are > three versions, gs-gpl, gs-esp, gs-afpl. I'm using gs-eps by default. > Which one are you using? Mind you, used directly, all the gs's seem to > behave the same way. I just apt-got gs-esp which wasn't installed and I can see my ps files now. If I apt-get remove gs-esp I can't view the ps file anymore. So gs-gpl doesn't work but gs-esp+gs-gpl actually does. Should gs then depend on gs-esp too ? -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
