Re: ghostscript regression

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Thanks for your reply,

> Is the last page really 226?

No, in ghostview, I could see all the pages (over 700).  I think the
PostScript parsing crash probably caused a partial abort.  The first
bad figure was at about that point.

> I've had some experience with "a book containing PostScript figures dating back to the 1990s" (and earlier).  Many of the figures did not meet the "EPS" specification.  The book was originally formatted using Y&Y TeX, dvipsone, and distiller.  The solution was to convert all the figures to PDF (because that can be done with pretty much any PS file, not just EPS) and format using pdftex with miniltx and the LaTeX graphics macros.

Thanks for the tip.  In my case, I have to remain compatible with
latex2html as well, which does not support PDF figures to my
knowledge.  Rewriting the PostScript using Illustrator seems to work
ok, although it emits  the wrong bounding box info for the thumbnail
(a full page instead of the original bounding box).

Julius

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:30 AM, George N. White III
<aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Julius Smith wrote:
>
>> I am getting errors converting PostScript to PDF on F8 that I do not
>> get on an F6 machine:
>>
>> On F6:
>> ps2pdf test.ps test.pdf
>> uname -a
>> Linux ccrma-gate.stanford.edu 2.6.23.16-64.2.fc6.ccrma #1 SMP Mon Feb
>> 11 14:13:20 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> On two different machines running F8 (operating on the same PostScript
>> file):
>>
>> ps2pdf test.ps test.pdf
>> Error: /undefinedresult in --xyshow--
>> [...]
>> Current file position is 8013015
>> GPL Ghostscript 8.61: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>> GPL Ghostscript 8.61: ERROR: A pdfmark destination page 227 points
>> beyond the last page 226.
>>
>> The file is 24MB, so it is not easy to isolate what is triggering the
>> problem.  It is a book containing PostScript figures dating back to
>> the 1990s.
>> Any ideas?
>
> Is the last page really 226?  You should be able to find the
> problematic pdfmark with an editor.  The ghostscript documentations
> provides pointers to the relevant Adobe documents.  Does the link
> work in the .pdf file created using FC6?  How was the .ps file
> created?  It is possible that the PS figures are not EPS and the
> ghostscript error is a result of some side efect of the PS figure.
>
> I've had some experience with "a book containing PostScript figures dating
> back to the 1990s" (and earlier).  Many of the figures did not meet the
> "EPS" specification.  The book was originally formatted using Y&Y TeX,
> dvipsone, and distiller.  The solution was to convert all the figures to PDF
> (because that can be done with pretty much any PS file, not just EPS) and
> format using pdftex with miniltx and the LaTeX graphics macros.
>
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