I've found a bug apparently in some part of GhostView involving the
parsing of DSC. The bug appears where there's a DSC 'continuation line'
consisting just of "%%+", as apposed to "%%+ foo" or the like.
This pair of Hello World documents illustrates:
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/PostScript/dsc_plusline_000.ps
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/PostScript/dsc_plusline_001.ps
The 000 causes no problems. But 001 invariably causes segfaults (!) in
kghostview under Linux and in gs under MacOSX. The only difference is
that 001 has a blank "%%+" continuation line.
They're short, so I'll also just include them here.
Here's dsc_plusline_000.ps:
-----snip
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Title: That thing
%%+I sencha
%%Creator: Peter Potamus
%%Page: 1 1
/pgsave save def
/Times-Roman findfont 30 scalefont setfont
108 504 moveto (Hello, World!) show
showpage pgsave restore
%%EOF
-----snip
And here's dsc_plusline_001.ps that causes the trouble:
-----snip
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Title: That thing
%%+
%%+I sencha
%%Creator: Peter Potamus
%%Page: 1 1
/pgsave save def
/Times-Roman findfont 30 scalefont setfont
108 504 moveto (Hello, World!) show
showpage pgsave restore
%%EOF
-----snip
Here's what the relevent "gs -v" (from Fink) says:
AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18)
Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
And here's what the "kghostview -v" says:
Qt: 3.3.4
KDE: 3.4.2-0.fc3.2 Red Hat
KGhostView: 0.20
This is the output from the KDE crash handler's backtracer:
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208137024 (LWP 14095)]
[KCrash handler]
#3 0x005d018c in memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/libc.so.6
#4 0x00a1d982 in dsc_set_page_bbox () from /usr/lib/libkghostviewlib.so.0
#5 0x0820f68c in ?? ()
#6 0xfffffffb in ?? ()
#7 0x0098b54c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#8 0xbfffd7c0 in ?? ()
#9 0xfffffffb in ?? ()
#10 0x0820f68c in ?? ()
#11 0x00a2c7d4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkghostviewlib.so.0
#12 0xfffffffb in ?? ()
#13 0x0820f68c in ?? ()
#14 0xbfffd788 in ?? ()
#15 0x00a1e812 in dsc_init () from /usr/lib/libkghostviewlib.so.0
On that machine, "gs -v" says
GNU Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-05-17)
Clearly the workaround is to just not have blank "%%+" lines. But a
proper bugfix would be nice.
--
Sean M. Burke http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
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