Customer reports:

While experimenting with BufferSpace, I've found something else. GS 8.53        
fails to rip the attached file at 2800 dpi and higher, with a bufferspace      
of 2 Mb:                                                                        
                                                                                
gs -DBufferSpace=2000000 -sDEVICE=tiff32nc -sOutputFile=a.tif -r28000           
-dNOPAUSE -f trans.pdf -c quit                                                  
Error: /rangecheck in --.fillpage--                                             
etc...                                                                         
                                                                                
I've tracked the problem a little bit, and found the cause of the problem:     
clist_init_states() returns gs_error_range_check because the "data_size" is
too small. As a result, the device has "permanent_error" set to -15 and        
clist_fill_rectangle immediately fails.                                        
                                                                                
I don't understand exactly what happens. clist_init_states() is called 2        
times with this file (I suppose it's because of the transparency), and the     
second times the number of bands is much higher than the first time. Thus      
the data_size is too small.                                                     
                                                                                
I see in gdev_prn_setup_as_command_list that the BufferSpace value is used      
as base value to compute the data_size. Thus with a higher BufferSpace          
(e.g. 5 Mb) you need to augment the resolution to reproduce the problem.        
                                                                               
Currently we never use less than 10 Mb with our devices. I've computed          
that, roughly, we need 2m x 2m at 1500 dpi to cause the problem. Not very       
common, but possible in a near future. Some printers (5m width)       
will soon reach 800 dpi, so we are not so far.