Arch Linux

could you provide the sample pdfs for testing convenience?

Hi,

Any PDF files are fine to reproduce this error, for instance, the next two files show the "Segmentation fault" message on my PC:

- https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/e/ed/Analyst_report_Q1_2010.pdf
- http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2005/12/30/pdfs/A42905-43094.pdf

[musikolo@MyPC ~]$ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf A42905-43094.pdf Analyst_report_Q1_2010.pdf
Segmentation fault

Best regards!

I just run a simple test, just fail with only Analyst_report_Q1_2010.pdf, there is no need to join.

I tested with other command line another pdf ( http://marketing.optomausa.com/PDFs/datasheets/Optoma_HD66_Datasheet.pdf ) and also fails.

gs -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=x -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -q Optoma_HD66_Datasheet.pdf -c showpage -c quit

ghostscript 8.71 works OK

My time is limited now, can anyone report this to upstream? Thanks. http://bugs.ghostscript.com/

@djgera:

Done: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691827

Thanks for your support! ;)

Most likely, it's a local build problem.
I've tried my builds of v. 9.00 and the current development version
on Linux and Windows. The crash is not reproduced.

Please try to rebuild your gs and check how does it work.

Please, see the recommendations suggested by the GhostScript team in order to fix this issue:
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691827#c2

Best regards-

so they said to not use any external libs and that's that.. wonderful

I've reported a similar crash with ghostscript here: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691831

It's been fixed upstream with a single line fix. It was relative to a GCC 4.5.1 issue (at least for x86_64). It may be interesting to backport that fix at least. Or maybe build ghostscript with an older GCC version. Clang also does not seem to be concerned by that problem.

[~]% gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf A42905-43094.pdf Analyst_report_Q1_2010.pdf
zsh: segmentation fault gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf
[~]% gs-svn -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf A42905-43094.pdf Analyst_report_Q1_2010.pdf
[~]%

That fix may be relative to other fixes thought.

I've applied the gcc fix from svn commit #11948 to solve the gcc ANSI issue: http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-commits/2010-December/012019.html

Some minor cleanups have been made to the pkg, please test ghostsript 9.00-2 from testing. Both here reported issues are solved for me (x86_64).

BTW, 9.00-1 works on i686.

ghostscript 9.00-2 works on i686

Confirmed, using the same files, the previous command that used to fail, now works perfectly.

Thanks for fixing it so quickly! ;-)