inkscape crashed on eps import

[Evger]

crash 50/50% when importing eps file. No details about error.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: inkscape 0.48.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 4 14:08:02 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: inkscape
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (2 days ago)

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Hi Evger.

Please could you attach a sample file that causes the crash?

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

crash not reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape 0.48.2, svg file attached.

- which version of Inkscape are you running?

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

sorry, I just saw the 48.2 in your first message.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Hi Evger,

How are you trying to open the file? Are you doing it from the command-line or from File->Open... or File->Import...?

Also, does the entire application crash or do you just get a warning dialog?

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

For me, the file opens fine if I go through the menus. However, if I open it from the command-line with "inkscape logo.eps", I get a dialog with:

ps2pdf failed:

Error: /undefinedfilename in (Desktop/logo.eps)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1162/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
GPL Ghostscript 9.04: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

[Evger (evger)]

Error message "Внутренняя ошибка. Inscape придется закрыть". Translate from russian "Internal error. Inscape should be closed"
I open eps image in file -> open.
Then i saw Import from pdf dialog. And then this error.

[Evger (evger)]

Error message "Внутренняя ошибка. Inscape придется закрыть". Translate from russian "Internal error. Inscape should be closed"
I open eps image in file -> open.
Then i saw Import from pdf dialog. And then this error.
At this time error showed at 4th try.

And look at the preview image. This contains right collors i needed, but then image imported collors corrupted.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

not exactly sure if this is relevant, but on my download I got the file logo.ps, not logo.eps

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

I can't comment on the original crash, because I can't reproduce it.

However, apart from that, there is a problem in Inkscape with respect to the color gradients in the image. Attached is a pdf file obtained from the .ps file using the DOS command : ps2pdf logo.ps logo.pdf. I believe this is the same as what Inkscape does as well in its conversion. The pdf file appears to be a good rendering of the original .ps file, including the color gradients. However, when I import the pdf file into Inkscape, all the color gradients are gone (or not used, to be more precise).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Alvin Penner wrote
> However, apart from that, there is a problem in Inkscape
> with respect to the color gradients in the image

Most likely the same as Bug #530895 “Opening EPS with Gradient”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/530895>
(gradients are present but incorrectly transformed (or not transformed at all)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Alvin Penner wrote:
> but on my download I got the file logo.ps, not logo.eps

Probably your browser sticks to the mime type of the attached file and rewrites the suffix:
> eps file that makes incskape crash (234.1 KiB, application/postscript)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

1) Crash not reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.1, 0.48.2 and 0.48+devel r10614 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (i386) when opened from within Inkscape.

2) Gradient issue is a duplicate of
Bug #530895 “Opening EPS with Gradient”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/530895>

2) ps2pdf failure when opened from the command line is a duplicate of
Bug #695120 “cannot open relative paths using script extensions from command line”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/695120>
(Use full path name when opening the EPS file from the command line).

Note: The file format of the attached file is EPS:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Creator: CorelDRAW

«More in-depth information on the EPS file format
(…) At a minimum, it must include a header comment, %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0, and a bounding box comment, (…)»
<http://www.prepressure.com/library/file-formats/eps>

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

>> 2) Gradient issue is a duplicate of
>> Bug #530895 “Opening EPS with Gradient”:
 the gradient issue has been addressed in bzr rev 10680. definition of gradientTransform was modified, svg result is attached.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Not reproduced on Ubuntu 11.04, Inkscape 0.48.1-2ubuntu2 and trunk revision 11017 (tried 10 times each).

[Kris (kris-degussem)]

Could not reproduce the issue either on windows vista.
Hence, closing this report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for inkscape (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]