Bug 688652

Summary:	pswrite/ps2write: /VMerror in --.pushpdf14devicefilter-- with given pdf file
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Hin-Tak Leung <htl10>
Component:	PS Writer	Assignee:	leonardo <leonardo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4
Version:	master
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	the pdf file which triggers the problem

Description Hin-Tak Leung 2006-04-15 20:10:23 UTC

6706/trunk and 8.53. psmono and psrgb and psgray works fine, but
pswrite and ps2write doesn't.

pdf file to follow.

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bin/gs  -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOutputFile=a.ps -c save
pop -f file.pdf
AFPL Ghostscript CVS PRE-RELEASE 8.54 (2005-10-20)
Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
Error: /VMerror in --.pushpdf14devicefilter--
VM status: 4 1813711 3116976
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 12
AFPL Ghostscript CVS PRE-RELEASE 8.54: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
 bin/gs  -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=a.ps -c save
pop -f file.pdf 
AFPL Ghostscript CVS PRE-RELEASE 8.54 (2005-10-20)
Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
Error: /VMerror in --.pushpdf14devicefilter--
VM status: 4 1387987 2682252
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 12
AFPL Ghostscript CVS PRE-RELEASE 8.54: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
bash-3.00$ 
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Comment 1 Hin-Tak Leung 2006-04-15 20:17:15 UTC

Created attachment 2155 [details]
the pdf file which triggers the problem

it displays find with x11, and other devices, but also have problem with ijs
in devicegray (separate bug, will follow).

Comment 2 Hin-Tak Leung 2006-04-30 18:18:16 UTC

Apologies - the problem seems to be at least partly resource related.
On a different machine (opteron with more RAM), pswrite ran to completion,
but file sizes very different for the bad pdf file and good pdf file
(http://bugs.ghostscript.com/attachment.cgi?id=2155&action=view
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/attachment.cgi?id=2156&action=view)

64-bit gs 815.1 on opteron
-rw-r--r-- 1 50139 fuse 142919220 May  1 02:02 bad.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 50139 fuse  16453037 May  1 02:03 good.ps

32-bit gs 8.53 on opteron
-rw-r--r-- 1 50139 fuse 139439169 May  1 02:04 bad.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 50139 fuse  16514479 May  1 02:03 good.ps

So the crash is probably due to the fact that the original machine
is a bit under-powered.

So the bug probably should be rephrased as why 
the resource requirement and nearly 100x increase in file size
from pdf to ps.

Comment 3 leonardo 2006-09-26 02:26:50 UTC

The attachment 2155 [details] needs 220Mb RAM. Closing as a dup of Bug 688919 .

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 688919 ***