<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Childs</b> <<a href="mailto:peterachilds@gmail.com">peterachilds@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karl Lattimer</b> <<a href="mailto:karl@qdh.org.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
karl@qdh.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 13:56 +0100, Peter Childs wrote:<br>> I have 3 Ubuntu 7.04 machines and a postscript file I wish to convert<br>> to pdf using ps2pdf.<br>><br>> 2 of them work fine the 3rd freezes and I'm not sure why.
<br>><br>> ps2pdf just hangs until ctrl-c is pressed.<br>><br>> I can get simular problem when printing pdf files using cups on this<br>> computer (but not on the other two)<br>> so I think the problem is with ghostscript. As gs
file.pdf freezes on<br>> this machine too.<br>><br>> oh ps2pdf just calls gs with the correct switches from what I can work<br>> out.<br>><br>> all 3 machines are using gs-esd.<br>><br>> Any ideas of even what to look at would be most useful
<br><br>Have you checked how much CPU time you're using during the conversion?<br>It could be as simple as its just taking a long time to convert.<br>Alternatively I think you can get a copy of adobe distiller and run it
<br>with wine which _SHOULD_ work fine.<br><br>K,</blockquote></span><div><br><br>The machine it freezes on has more memory and a faster processor than the other two. <br><br>gs-gpl works fine. As I did try swaping it at one point but it cuts the top of some documents off, other wise that would have been a fix :)
<br><br>However I think you might be right it does complete eventually but takes a very very long time (51.596s according to time) <br><span class="sg"> <br>Peter<br> </span></div><span class="q"></span></div></blockquote>
</div><br>After further research and testing I've found this to be a bug on machines with 1Gb or more memory. I upgraded one of the other machines to 1Gb and the bug started... This is probably a bug. I've installed the none free version (gs-afpl) and its fine.
<br><br>Peter<br>