text in idraw giving errors in recent versions of ghostscript

[John H. <jo...@is...>]

Has anyone else noticed that text in idraw gives errors in recent
versions of ghostscript?

Specificially, if I create a new file with idraw 1.0.6 and put the
text string "foo" in it, the gv the file using ghostscript-6.52-9.4 on
Redhat 7.3, it gives the following error message:

Error: /rangecheckGNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
 in --get--
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   descender   0   --nostringval--   1
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1038/1476(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:90/200(L)--   --dict:36/51(L)--   --dict:1/17(L)--   --dict:5/17(L)--   --dict:1/3(L)--   --dict:14/17(ro)(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 10438


Position 10438 is the first character of the "End" just after
the "] Text" line in the file.

This problem didn't happen on Redhat Linux 7.2, but it persists even
if I downgrade ghostview in RH 7.3 to the 7.2 version.  


1. Has anyone else observed this bug?

2. Is this a ghostscript or idraw problem?
(Is idraw wrong and ghostscript is now more conservative in this release, or 
did ghostscript regress.)

I hpoe it's fixable because I have lots of old idraw files that I like
to ghostview!

   -John