FS#22026 - [ghostscript] Embeded eps file fails to display in xdvi.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Olive (olivel) - Wednesday, 08 December 2010, 21:59 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 11 February 2011, 06:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Embedded eps file fails to display in xdvi. xdvi use ghostsript to display the image, I do not know if this bug is xdvi or ghostscript related. But the problems have appeared since the last upgrade of ghostscript to version 9.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
ghostscript 9.00-1 and texlive-bin 2010.1-5

* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
Create a dvi file with an eps image (\includegraphics{image.eps} in LaTeX) and display it with xdvi.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Friday, 11 February 2011, 06:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 18 December 2010, 10:48 GMT
Please test gs 9.00-2 from testing. If it keeps failing please provide .dvi file that I can test.
Comment by Leonid Isaev (lisaev) - Saturday, 18 December 2010, 17:33 GMT
Olive, please try enabling anti-aliasing in xdvi. This works for me (i686).
Comment by Leonid Isaev (lisaev) - Saturday, 18 December 2010, 20:29 GMT
Actually, I wasn't totally clear: antialising (AA) is only needed when dealing with special figures, notably coming from gnuplot, when using fillcurves. Other figures, produced e.g. by asymptote/dvips are displayed OK with or without AA.

I just tested gs 9.00-2 with the same result. W/o AA the error is:
xdvik: read_from_gs: Connection reset by peer

I am attaching eps+tex (please run 'latex *.tex') for each case... thanks.
   ti_ss_notes-working_wo_aa.tar... (13.3 KiB)
   ti_ss_notes-not_working_wo_aa... (30.1 KiB)
Comment by Olive (olivel) - Monday, 20 December 2010, 13:02 GMT
The issue persists with gs 9.00-2. However enabling antialiasing as suggested by Leonid Isaev (lisaev) does works (so the problem becomes minor but there is still an anomaly). I attach a test file. The eps file was produced by gnuplot (I produce it with the plot2d command of maxima that generate a gnuplot file to be parsed by gnuplot to produce the eps).
   test.tar.bz2 (6.8 KiB)
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 30 January 2011, 11:07 GMT
State? Any upstream report you have made we can follow? If not this one will get closed as "upstream". It's not a packaging bug it seems.
Comment by Leonid Isaev (lisaev) - Sunday, 30 January 2011, 22:58 GMT
> State?
Not changed
> Any upstream report you have made we can follow?
I took the liberty to open a ticket at http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691919
> If not this one will get closed as "upstream". It's not a packaging bug it seems.
I agree. In fact, I would vote for this
Comment by Leonid Isaev (lisaev) - Thursday, 10 February 2011, 20:17 GMT
testing/ghostscript 9.01-1 fixes the issue for me on i686... thanks.

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