[Gllug] Problems with ps2pdf

[Nix]

On 25 May 2007, Peter Childs stated:
> I have 3 Ubuntu 7.04 machines and a postscript file I wish to convert to pdf
> using ps2pdf.
>
> 2 of them work fine the 3rd freezes and I'm not sure why.

Identical GS versions?

> ps2pdf on the 3rd machine actually complete eventually after about 50 secs,
> but the machine has to swap heavely. This machine has 1G of memory (the
> other two where it runs ok have 1/2G and 1/4G and takes just under 1secs
> acording to time)

If the GS versions are identical, it's probably a bug somewhere. If they're
not, it might be an improvement.

> I'm wondering if the problem could be libraries or some ghost script option
> but I'm at a loss to know where to look.

A GS bug looks likely.

> I can get simular problem when printing pdf files using cups on this
> computer (but not on the other two)
> so I think the problem is with ghostscript. As gs file.pdf freezes on this
> machine too.

Owwww. Any PDF file, or just that one?

> oh ps2pdf just calls gs with the correct switches from what I can work out.

Yes.

> all 3 machines are using gs-esd.

Do you mean ESP Ghostscript? That might explain it: espgs is based on a
really rather old GPL Ghostscript release, following which there have
been *substantial* bugfixes and improvement in PDF handling.

You probably want to try the latest AFPL release, 8.57.

> Any ideas of even what to look at would be most useful

Well, none of us can debug it without an example of the failing PS :)

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