Bug 701272

Summary: No jpg produced by master but 9.xx is fine
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: Paul Wessel <pwessel>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Default assignee <ghostpdl-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: chris.liddell
Priority: P4    
Version: master   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: MacOS X   
Customer: Word Size: ---
Attachments: Simple baseman frame EPS file.

Description Paul Wessel 2019-06-27 03:49:56 UTC 
Created attachment 17780 [details]
Simple baseman frame EPS file.

Given bug id https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701186 we wanted to try to build gs from master.  However, the gs command

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=jpeg -g1369x1338 -r300 -sOutputFile='test.jpg' -ft.eps

fails to produce the jpeg output (9.27 and earlier all work).  Perhaps this is a temporary instability in master but we wanted to point it out as it is pretty serious for our use.  gs is installed via brew install ghostscript --HEAD, which compiles the gs source codes from the master branch. The commit hash is 12ffa0f40.
Comment 1 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2019-06-27 07:15:45 UTC 
It does produce the output file for me, on Linux.
Comment 2 Ken Sharp 2019-06-27 07:40:42 UTC 
(In reply to Paul Wessel from comment #0)

> Given bug id https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701186 we wanted
> to try to build gs from master.  However, the gs command
> 
> gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=jpeg -g1369x1338 -r300 -sOutputFile='test.jpg'
> -ft.eps
> 
> fails to produce the jpeg output (9.27 and earlier all work).

I've just built Ghostscript (from the SHA1 in comment #0) on Windows, Linux and Mac. The supplied command line produces a JPEG output file on all three platforms.

BTW if you are going to use EPS files you can use -dEPSCrop instead of supplying a fixed media size. Its easier and works for EPS files whose origin isn't 0,0.

I'm assuming the '-' on '-ft.eps' is a typo since the file supplied has the name ft.eps.

You haven't supplied the stdout/stderr output, is there anythign there which might give a clue as to your problem ?


> pretty serious for our use.  gs is installed via brew install ghostscript
> --HEAD, which compiles the gs source codes from the master branch.

I suspect this is your problem. We don't use brew and don't have anyone who knows anything about it. But it seems likely that whatever its doing, its doing it wrong.

The supported method of building Ghostscript requires Git and autotools to be installed. With those packages available, from a terminal window do:

git clone git://git.ghostscript.com/ghostpdl.git

Then cd to the resulting ghostpdl folder and

./autogen.sh
make

For me that builds a working version of Ghostscript using MacOS 10.14
Comment 3 Ken Sharp 2019-07-02 08:44:10 UTC 
Closing due to lack of response.