Public bug reported:
Ordinarily, an EPS object would appear in xfig via a preview. After
upgrading to Kubuntu 16.10, EPS objects appear as black or empty
rectangles with the error message: "EPS object read OK, but no preview
bitmap found/generated"
It is possible to view the EPS files with GV. The same problem exists
for PDF objects, and including a colour TIFF preview on export leads to
"unknown image format" on import. I have not checked whether similar
problems exist when importing other file types.
When trying to put together a minimal example (make a very simple EPS in
xfig, import it), I found that "Shrink to orig" put one coordinate at
-4772184.8844, so there may also be an issue interpreting bounding boxes
in some cases. I haven't included an example as I realized it's trivial
to do (draw a circle, export to EPS/PDF, start a new file, import
EPS/PDF), but let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
Description: Ubuntu 16.10
Release: 16.10
xfig:
Installed: 1:3.2.6-1
Candidate: 1:3.2.6-1
Version table:
*** 1:3.2.6-1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: xfig 1:3.2.6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Nov 1 10:57:47 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-26 (340 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: xfig
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-11-01 (0 days ago)
** Affects: xfig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug yakkety
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Xfig fails to generate EPS preview
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