Bug 690571

Summary:	Problem with GV on servers of Xorg
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Component:	X Display Driver	Assignee:	Chris Liddell (chrisl) <chris.liddell>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	christinedelight.top85, jsmeix, till.kamppeter
Priority:	P4
Version:	8.64
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Bug Depends on:	690444
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	ghostscript-8.61-x11.dif

Description Dr. Werner Fink 2009-06-24 07:49:07 UTC

For GV (and ghostview) a memory deivce is used. The problem is now
that most time the width and height of the memory device is not
identical with the xdev device its self. Also extrem large bbox
can lead to problems on systems with less physical memory.

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2009-06-24 07:49:50 UTC

Created attachment 5156 [details]
ghostscript-8.61-x11.dif

This patch avoids these two problems.

Comment 2 Hin-Tak Leung 2010-06-27 00:44:49 UTC

There is a related bug 690444 (and patch) and the two should be reviewed together.

Comment 3 Hin-Tak Leung 2010-07-05 03:11:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> For GV (and ghostview) a memory deivce is used. The problem is now
> that most time the width and height of the memory device is not
> identical with the xdev device its self. Also extrem large bbox
> can lead to problems on systems with less physical memory.

Is there a test file with large bbox you can post that can trigger this problem?

Comment 4 Hin-Tak Leung 2010-08-02 00:17:39 UTC

Confirm and re-assign bugs with attached/in-line patches for another person to review.

Comment 5 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2013-11-08 01:30:54 UTC

Patch applied:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=4a4a912b

Thanks for the contribution.