Philip Rinn <ri...@inventati.org> writes:

> Hi David, hi Russell,
>
> I think it is a problem of the input file - this might be linked to the
> Ghostscript version used - see:
>
>
> philip@debian:~$ epstool --test-eps input.eps
> "gs"  -dNOEPS -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNODISPLAY  "/tmp/gsview8BugKU"
> GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
> Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> EPSWARN FAIL: EPS file must not use /statusdict
> EPSWARN WARNING: EPS file should be careful using /setmatrix
> EPSWARN WARNING: EPS file should be careful using /setmatrix
>
> EPSWARN FAIL
>
> "gs"  -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox   -c "<</PageSize [9400 9400] 
> /PageOffset
> [3000 3000]>> setpagedevice" -f "/tmp/gsviewo4EEll"
> GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
> Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> %%BoundingBox: 589 3541 3172 3721
> %%HiResBoundingBox: 589.805982 3541.013892 3171.982263 3720.131886

The EPS is produced by dvips -E.  At a guess this hasn't changed
recently (although I did not verify).  So if I understand correctly
Ghostscript got fussier and stopped accepting the output from dvips -E?

d

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