[Klug-general] Problems with ps2pdf

[Peter Childs]

On 24/05/07, Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 24/05/07, Karl Lattimer <karl at qdh.org.uk> wrote:
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> > 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
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> > 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,
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> The machine it freezes on has more memory and a faster processor than the
> other two.
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> 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 :)
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> However I think you might be right it does complete eventually but takes a
> very very long time (51.596s according to time)
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> Peter
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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.

Peter
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