[Klug-general] Problems with ps2pdf

[Karl Lattimer]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 13:56 +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ps2pdf just hangs until ctrl-c is pressed.
> 
> 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.
> 
> oh ps2pdf just calls gs with the correct switches from what I can work
> out.
> 
> all 3 machines are using gs-esd.
> 
> Any ideas of even what to look at would be most useful

Have you checked how much CPU time you're using during the conversion?
It could be as simple as its just taking a long time to convert.
Alternatively I think you can get a copy of adobe distiller and run it
with wine which _SHOULD_ work fine.

K,