I have a PDF file that displays fine with Adobe Acroread and xpdf, but that gs is unable to handle. Is this a bug in ghostscript? I've tested with ghostscript 9.0, Ghostscript 9.71, and the Artifex Subversion head (svn co http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk/gs), and all give me errors. Here's what I get with the Subversion head (r11865): $ ./bin/gs /tmp/crasher.pdf GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 9.01 (2010-09-14) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Processing pages 1 through 1. Page 1 Error: /unknownerror in --run-- Operand stack: --dict:6/15(L)-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3 %oparray_pop 1909 1 3 %oparray_pop 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 1 1 --nostringval-- %for_pos_int_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- %loop_continue --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1152/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:1/20(G)-- --dict:82/200(L)-- --dict:82/200(L)-- --dict:108/127(ro)(G)-- --dict:294/300(ro)(G)-- --dict:23/30(L)-- --dict:6/8(L)-- --dict:21/40(L)-- --dict:4/5(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 11 GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 9.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Created attachment 6848 [details] crasher.pdf
This is yet another case of transparency failing on x11alpha device used by gs by default. To work around the problem, use plain x11 device: gs -sDEVICE=x11 ...
Fixed with rev 12380