Bug 688308

Summary:	Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: .type1execchar
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Jacob Schäffer <js>
Component:	PS Interpreter	Assignee:	leonardo <leonardo>
Status:	NOTIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.51
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	Test files etc. Results

Description Jacob Schäffer 2005-09-21 01:57:08 UTC

I have several PostScript jobs that cause the following error with GS:

%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: .type1execchar ]%%
AFPL Ghostscript 8.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

The same PS files runs perfectly well with Distiller 5.X, 6.X and 7.X.

The element that fail is originally created exported to PDF 1.4 from InDesign. 
The PDF is then placed into Adobe FrameMaker and printed to PostScript.

Test files will be uploaded ASAP.

- Jacob

Comment 1 Jacob Schäffer 2005-09-21 02:09:04 UTC

Created attachment 1688 [details]
Test files etc.

Comment 2 Jacob Schäffer 2005-09-21 02:20:21 UTC

Created attachment 1689 [details]
Results

Comment 3 Jacob Schäffer 2005-09-28 00:22:17 UTC

I've just run a similar job (i.e. NOT the physical test files, but a job that 
trigger the exact same error messages with 8.51) with AFPL Ghostscript 8.50.

To my surprise, 8.50 did NOT trigger any errors at all.

Comment 4 leonardo 2005-10-11 04:13:13 UTC

Reproduced with HEAD.

Comment 5 leonardo 2005-10-12 11:02:19 UTC

Patch to HEAD :
http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2005-October/005768.html