ps2pdf with gs-esp gives corrupt output

[mannheim]

Open Firefox in Dapper, Flight 5, go to google.com, and then select "Print ...". In the Print dialog, select as printer name "Postscript/default", and check "Save to File". Save the output to "out.ps".

Now use ghostcript to convert out.ps to a pdf file, with the command line "ps2pdf out.ps". Finally, open out.pdf with evince.

On my system, the view in evince shows the bottom of the google banner truncated: only about three quarters of the "Google" gif appears. The file out.pdf cannot be viewed correctly by acroread either (the entire banner is not drawn.)

No idea which package to assign this to: gs, or cupssys, or what.

[mannheim (kronheim)]

I changed the affected package name to "gs-esp". (The assignment to "gs-gpl" was incorrect.)

[mannheim (kronheim)]

This is the ps file created from Firefox, by printing the page "google.com".

[mannheim (kronheim)]

This was generated by "ps2pdf out.ps", using gs-esp package version 8.15.1.dfsg.1-1ubuntu

[mannheim (kronheim)]

Converting the same postscript file to pdf using gpl ghostscript on a Windows machine gives a pdf file that is not corrupt.

[mannheim (kronheim)]

I just installed gs-gpl from the dapper repositories. I found that gs-gpl can successfully convert the previously attached :"out.ps" to a pdf file, without corruption. The problem only occurs with gs-esp.

I suspect that this problem with gs-esp on my system is also responsible for printing problems: for example, a simple text document can be printed from gedit to my Canon inkjet printer; but a more complicated page from Firefox fails to print.

I have a second (similar) dapper installation on my office machine. It exhibits the same corruption with gs-esp.

[Frank Fischer (fischer01)]

I have expirienced this same bug on FC5: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187834
They have fixed it in a recent update (04-10.2006)

[moelles (moelles)]

Same problem for me: convert pdf to pdf (4pages on1) in kprinter triggers an error message and no pdf.. also the printpreview in kprinter shows blank pages

after an update-alternatives to gs-gpl all works as expected

[Frank Fischer (fischer01)]

This one got fixed for me with gs-esp 8.15.2.dfsg.0ubuntu1-0ubuntu1

[mannheim (kronheim)]

Yes, gs-esp 8.15.2.dfsg.0ubuntu1-0ubuntu1 works! Thanks.

The example "out.ps" now gets converted to an "out.pdf" that Acrobat and Evince both display fine on my machine (using ps2pdf).

[moelles (moelles)]

Fixed. Thank you.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Confirmed fixed by the reporter, closing. Thank you for checking!