Bug 693922

Summary:	Regression: The SVG device is broken
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Component:	Other Driver	Assignee:	Henry Stiles <henry.stiles>
Status:	NOTIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	a.rolek
Priority:	P1
Version:	master
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Customer:	580	Word Size:	---

Description Marcos H. Woehrmann 2013-04-18 06:12:31 UTC

A customer is interested in using Ghostscript to generate SVG files from PDF and PostScript files, bu the SVG device is broken.

This sample command line:

  bin/gs -sDEVICE=svg -o tiger.svg example/tiger.eps

Results in an SVG file that neither Safari nor Illustrator CS5 can open (Safari reports "error on line 10 at column 10: attributes construct error", Illustrator just says invalid file).  

SVG output worked in Ghostscript 8.64, that version is able to convert tiger.eps to a valid SVG file but Ghostscript 9.00 segfaults.

Comment 1 Henry Stiles 2013-04-18 14:48:23 UTC

I will fix the regression but the svg device is experimental at this stage and probably should not be used in a production setting.  I guess there is about 3 months of engineering work to get the device in a state where we would be satisfied with calling it customer-ready.  Currently the project has background status, meaning we don't work on it regularly.  I think that information should be shared with the customer requesting this fix.

Comment 3 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2013-04-18 15:27:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I will fix the regression but the svg device is experimental at this stage
> and probably should not be used in a production setting.  I guess there is
> about 3 months of engineering work to get the device in a state where we
> would be satisfied with calling it customer-ready.  Currently the project
> has background status, meaning we don't work on it regularly.  I think that
> information should be shared with the customer requesting this fix.

Customer has already been notified that the SVG device is not of commercial quality.

Comment 4 Henry Stiles 2013-04-18 17:10:27 UTC

Shelly's fix worked, please thank him Chris.

commit 52d113e470047ea70485de785bc9a3b68731127c
Author: Henry Stiles <henry.stiles@artifex.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 18 11:04:49 2013 -0600

    Fix typo in SVG output device (bug #693922) by Shailesh Mistry.

Comment 5 a.rolek 2013-05-22 18:43:05 UTC

I'm also interested in converting .eps to .svg files. Looking forward to the  final implementation.