evince 2.28.1 fails to render binary eps files on amd64

[Chuong]

Binary package hint: evince

Hi all,

Karmic's evince (version up to 2.28.1) can not render several eps files I have, including the eps file attached, which however can be opened and rendered correctly by Hardy's evince (2.22.2). The eps files it can render are the ones whose text content can be viewed in Gedit. The eps files it cannot render are the binary ones which cannot be opened by Gedit. Nautilus also cannot render the icons of these later files.

If I run Karmic's evince from terminal to open the attached eps file, it produces these error messages:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ evince Histogram_ImgOvl2.eps
undefined -21
undefined -21
undefined -21

** (evince:3061): WARNING **: Error rendering thumbnail
undefined -21

** (evince:3061): WARNING **: Error rendering thumbnail
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In contrast, with Hardy's evince the same file can be opened without any error.

Chuong

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

The file renders fine on Karmic here, without those errors on the console.

Evince uses libspectre for rendering postscript files. Can you please check that you have libspectre1 version 0.2.2.ds-2 installed on your system?

Thank you

[Chuong (vinhchuong)]

Thanks for your reply. Yes I have libspectre1 0.2.2.ds-2 installed. I don't understand how I have this problem as evince came with Karmic default installation (mine is 64bit version). I reinstalled evince from synaptic but nothing changes.

Chuong

> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:42:34 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 479674] Re: evince 2.28.1 fails to render binary eps files
>
> The file renders fine on Karmic here, without those errors on the
> console.
>
> Evince uses libspectre for rendering postscript files. Can you please
> check that you have libspectre1 version 0.2.2.ds-2 installed on your
> system?
>
> Thank you
>
> ** Tags added: packaging
>
> --
> evince 2.28.1 fails to render binary eps files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479674
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: evince
>
> Hi all,
>
> Karmic's evince (version up to 2.28.1) can not render several eps files I have, including the eps file attached, which however can be opened and rendered correctly by Hardy's evince (2.22.2). The eps files it can render are the ones whose text content can be viewed in Gedit. The eps files it cannot render are the binary ones which cannot be opened by Gedit. Nautilus also cannot render the icons of these later files.
>
> If I run Karmic's evince from terminal to open the attached eps file, it produces these error messages:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ evince Histogram_ImgOvl2.eps
> undefined -21
> undefined -21
> undefined -21
>
> ** (evince:3061): WARNING **: Error rendering thumbnail
> undefined -21
>
> ** (evince:3061): WARNING **: Error rendering thumbnail
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In contrast, with Hardy's evince the same file can be opened without any error.
>
> Chuong

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[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Confirmed on an amd64 machine, marking as such
Thank you, Chuong

[krahim (karim-rahim)]

Hi,

I had the identical problem, and well I have an odd work around that I can repeat.
I install evince on my 32bit chroot and now evince works everywhere. I install it with the command
sudo aptitude install invance and it installs the following packages

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  devicekit-disks{a} evince ghostscript{a} gnome-icon-theme{a}
  gnome-keyring{a} gsfonts{a} gvfs{a} gvfs-backends{a} libarchive1{a}
  libatasmart4{a} libbluetooth3{a} libcdio-cdda0{a} libcdio-paranoia0{a}
  libcdio7{a} libcupsimage2{a} libdjvulibre-text{a} libdjvulibre21{a}
  libevdocument1{a} libevview1{a} libexif12{a} libffi5{a} libgcr0{a}
  libgd2-noxpm{a} libgdu0{a} libgnome-keyring0{a} libgp11-0{a}
  libgphoto2-2{a} libgphoto2-port0{a} libgraphviz4{a} libgs8{a}
  libgsf-1-114{a} libgsf-1-common{a} libgudev-1.0-0{a} libgvfscommon0{a}
  libilmbase6{a} libkpathsea4{a} libmagickcore2{a} libmagickwand2{a}
  libopenexr6{a} libopenobex1{a} libpam-gnome-keyring{a} libparted1.8-12{a}
  libpolkit-agent-1-0{a} libpolkit-backend-1-0{a} libpoppler-glib4{a}
  libpoppler5{a} libproxy0{a} librsvg2-2{a} librsvg2-common{a}
  libsgutils2-2{a} libsoup-gnome2.4-1{a} libsoup2.4-1{a} libspectre1{a}
  libwmf0.2-7{a} obex-data-server{a} policykit-1{a} policykit-1-gnome{a}
  psfontmgr{a} python-dbus{a} python-gobject{a}

During the setup I can watch my 64 bit version of evince actually show the image correctly. If I remove this evince it doesn't work.

To reproduce it. First have evince not working on a valid eps file in 64 bit. Setup a 32 bit chroot and install evince and see what happens.

Let me know if you want any other info.

Karim

[Chuong (vinhchuong)]

Hi Karim,

Thanks for the solution. Actually I can survive with this bug as I can open eps files by importing them in Gimp. Without this bug, it would easier for me to select correct eps files by just looking at their icons, but this is not crucial. I am writing articles in Latex and have no problem to compile with eps files to create usable pdf files.

Chuong

> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:15:38 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 479674] Re: evince 2.28.1 fails to render binary eps files on amd64
>
> Hi,
>
> I had the identical problem, and well I have an odd work around that I can repeat.
> I install evince on my 32bit chroot and now evince works everywhere. I install it with the command
> sudo aptitude install invance and it installs the following packages
>
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> devicekit-disks{a} evince ghostscript{a} gnome-icon-theme{a}
> gnome-keyring{a} gsfonts{a} gvfs{a} gvfs-backends{a} libarchive1{a}
> libatasmart4{a} libbluetooth3{a} libcdio-cdda0{a} libcdio-paranoia0{a}
> libcdio7{a} libcupsimage2{a} libdjvulibre-text{a} libdjvulibre21{a}
> libevdocument1{a} libevview1{a} libexif12{a} libffi5{a} libgcr0{a}
> libgd2-noxpm{a} libgdu0{a} libgnome-keyring0{a} libgp11-0{a}
> libgphoto2-2{a} libgphoto2-port0{a} libgraphviz4{a} libgs8{a}
> libgsf-1-114{a} libgsf-1-common{a} libgudev-1.0-0{a} libgvfscommon0{a}
> libilmbase6{a} libkpathsea4{a} libmagickcore2{a} libmagickwand2{a}
> libopenexr6{a} libopenobex1{a} libpam-gnome-keyring{a} libparted1.8-12{a}
> libpolkit-agent-1-0{a} libpolkit-backend-1-0{a} libpoppler-glib4{a}
> libpoppler5{a} libproxy0{a} librsvg2-2{a} librsvg2-common{a}
> libsgutils2-2{a} libsoup-gnome2.4-1{a} libsoup2.4-1{a} libspectre1{a}
> libwmf0.2-7{a} obex-data-server{a} policykit-1{a} policykit-1-gnome{a}
> psfontmgr{a} python-dbus{a} python-gobject{a}
>
>
> During the setup I can watch my 64 bit version of evince actually show the image correctly. If I remove this evince it doesn't work.
>
> To reproduce it. First have evince not working on a valid eps file in 64
> bit. Setup a 32 bit chroot and install evince and see what happens.
>
> Let me know if you want any other info.
>
> Karim
>
> --
> evince 2.28.1 fails to render binary eps files on amd64
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479674
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “libspectre” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: evince
>
> Hi all,
>
> Karmic's evince (version up to 2.28.1) can not render several eps files I have, including the eps file attached, which however can be opened and rendered correctly by Hardy's evince (2.22.2). The eps files it can render are the ones whose text content can be viewed in Gedit. The eps files it cannot render are the binary ones which cannot be opened by Gedit. Nautilus also cannot render the icons of these later files.
>
> If I run Karmic's evince from terminal to open the attached eps file, it produces these error messages:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------...

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

I'm looking for some files that may present a problem to evince (under lucid) and, with the patch that I proposed on bug LP #298139, it works fine under PowerPC. Can anybody test if that patch fixes the issue here?

I don't have a 64-bit arch handy here.

Regards,