xdvi renders ps images incorrectly

Bug #1622883 reported by Robert Nürnberg
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Bug Description

Since upgrading to kubuntu 16.04, xdvi shows the following problem when displaying eps or ps images. In .dvi files with more than one such image, that cover the same part of the screen (although on different pages), the renderer overlays several images into one, rather than showing the single image belonging to that page. But his happens only when going back and forth between
the affected pages. On the first encounter of the first image, it will be displayed correctly.
I believe the 'clear box' procedure for that part of the screen is broken.

Steps to reproduce:
 * create LaTeX .tex file with at least two ps images
 * view .dvi output with xdvi
 * when cycling through the pages of the document, the two images will get overlayed in
   each of the two separate figures

Version numbers: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
xdvik version 22.87 (Xaw toolkit)
Libraries: kpathsea version 6.2.1, freetype version 2.5.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.5.5
QT Version: 5.5.1

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affects: ubuntu → texlive-bin (Ubuntu)
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Robert Nürnberg (robert-nurnberg) wrote :

The bug has been confirmed on the xdvik project page, see https://sourceforge.net/p/xdvi/bugs/400/

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Šarūnas Burdulis (sarunas) wrote :

I confirm the bug on

Ubuntu 17.04
xdvik version 22.87.03
texlive-binaries: 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-1
GPL Ghostscript 9.19 (2016-03-23)
ghostscript: 9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu7.2

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