Bug 689562

See Ubuntu bug report

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160203

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Ghostscript in Gutsy (and Hardy) gives wrong results for the Bounding Box for
most EPS files I've tried. It used to work fine with gs-gpl in Feisty. One
simple example of the failure is the following (using the example.ps file attached):
   gs -sDEVICE=bbox -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH example.ps
the result is wrong.

Reverting back to a previous version is hard, since the package changed its name
in Gutsy.

Example.ps file's content:
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%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Title: example.ps
%%Date: Sat Nov 3 20:58:13 WET 2007
%%BoundingBox: 52 97 267 163
%%Page: 1 1
0.8 0 0 setrgbcolor 1 setlinewidth
100 15 160 {100 exch moveto 120 0 rlineto stroke} for
0 setgray 0.3 setlinewidth newpath
140 130 3 0 360 arc gsave 0.7 0.6 0 setrgbcolor fill grestore stroke
/Times-Italic findfont 12 scalefont setfont
136 138 moveto (q) show
 55 127 moveto (V ) show currentpoint
225 127 moveto (V ) show
/Times-Roman findfont 12 scalefont setfont
(menor) show moveto (maior) show
showpage


Here is another PostScript file that shows better the bug. The command "gs
-sDEVICE=bbox -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH example2.ps" gives an empty bounding box, which
is wrong:
GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.61 (2007-08-02)
Copyright (C) 2007 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 0 0
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000

The gs-gpl package in Edgy used to give the correct result.

(file example2.ps attached to original bug report)
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