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ghostscript package

  1. Bug #1815339
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1815339

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Here is a reproducer (with GS 9.26) consisting in a pure Ghostscript command line:

cat appout.pdf | RIP_MAX_CACHE=128m gs -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOINTERPOLATE -dNOMEDIAATTRS -dShowAcroForm -sstdout='%stderr' -sOutputFile='%stdout' -sDEVICE=cups -sMediaClass=Cassette -sMediaType=Plain -r600x600 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=288 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=432 -dcupsBitsPerColor=8 -dcupsColorOrder=0 -dcupsColorSpace=6 -dcupsRowFeed=2 -scupsPageSizeName=w288h432 -I/usr/share/cups/fonts -c '<</.HWMargins[0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000] /Margins[0 0]>>setpagedevice' -f -_ > out.raster

Whether it crashes or not depends on the numeric value of the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment variable. For me all values up to 32.986m succeed and 32.987m and higher fails. Not supplying the RIP_MAX_CACHE also succeeds which is the reason whether the first attempts to run Ghostscript on the command line have succeeded.

Strange is that low values of RIP_MAX_CACHE succeed and high values fail, so it does not seem to be a problem of too small memory.