Re: text in idraw giving errors in recent versions of ghostscript

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

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:11:11 PDT, "Scott Johnston" wrote: 
>>
>>
>>>>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
>>>>      
>>>>
>To me this implies a bug in Ghostscript (or underlying library), not an 
>error in PostScript.
>
>>>>Current file position is 10438
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Position 10438 is the first character of the "End" just after
>>>>the "] Text" line in the file.
>>>>
>
>It seems position 10438 is on the line before the "Begin %I Text"/

Sorry, the error I sent you was from a different file.
The error in the foo.idraw I sent you is at file position 10606,
the "End" just after the Text.

>
>>>>
>>>>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.  
>>>>
>You would also need to downgrade ghostscript to the 7.2 version to see 
>if the problem
>is specific to ghostscript-6.52.  Did you do that?

Yes, that should have read "if I downgrade ghost*script*" to the 7.2
version.  What's odd is that this suggests the problem is in some
system library, not ghostscript itself.

>p.s.  After writing all this I vaguely recall some conflict between 
>recent ghostscript and the idraw EPS format, but I can't locate any 
>documentation on this.  Pinging the ghostscript maintainers (Raph 
>Levien) might stir up what that was (or was it just a hallucinated memory).

Ok, I'll try to send the bug to the ghostscript folks as well.

   -John