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ghostscript package

ghostscript fails on some EPS files

Bug #1449875 reported by Mads Martin Jørgensen on 2015-04-29

This bug affects 14 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ghostscript (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	texlive-lang (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

On Ubuntu 15.04, running in the cloud, I issue to following command to find the Bounding Box on the attached EPS. When I download the ghostscript binary from ghostscript.com or try the same on my FreeBSD server, it works just fine. Here's the command to reproduce:

$ gs -q -sDEVICE=bbox -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dEPSCrop -r300 broken-on-ubuntu-1504.eps

The expected output:
%%BoundingBox: 87 81 1515 1510
%%HiResBoundingBox: 87.840941 81.600003 1514.790058 1509.385370

The output on Ubuntu 15.04:
Error: /undefinedresource in resourcestatus
Operand stack:
   false ct_StyleDicts --dict:0/4(L)-- Adobe-Japan1 --dict:0/4(L)-- Serif HeiseiMin-W3-83pv-RKSJ-H Font HeiseiMin-W3 CIDFont
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1967 1 3 %oparray_pop 1967 1 3 %oparray_pop 1966 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 1950 1 3 %oparray_pop 1836 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1915 10 9 %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1183/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:87/200(L)-- --dict:57/75(L)-- --dict:2/10(L)-- --dict:39/70(L)-- --dict:0/4(L)-- --dict:0/4(L)-- --dict:20/27(ro)(G)-- --dict:20/26(ro)(G)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
GPL Ghostscript 9.15: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

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lp:ubuntu/wily-proposed/ghostscript

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Mads Martin Jørgensen (mmj-mmj) wrote on 2015-04-29:

This EPS shows the problem in the Ghostscript package Edit (5.5 MiB, application/postscript)

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Karoline Busse (kikidergecko) wrote on 2015-04-29:

I have the same problem with opening eps files that were created with Adobe Illustrator. It seems like the Japanese Font "HeiseiMin-W3" (part of the Adobe-Japan1 font bundle) is missing on the system. To work around this error, I installed texlive-full. Afterwards it works.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-04-29:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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David Abergel (davelargeuk) wrote on 2015-05-11:

I found that it was sufficient to install only the texlive-lang-cjk package, rather than the whole of texlive.

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Markus W (z-mw) wrote on 2015-05-26:

Confirming that installing `texlive-lang-cjk` fixes the error when importing an Illustrator EPS into Inkscape.

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Leon (leonbo) wrote on 2015-08-26:

Thanks! This fixed the issue:

sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-cjk --no-install-recommends

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-09-18:

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2

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ghostscript (9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2) wily; urgency=medium

* debian/rules: Recommend texlive-lang-cjk as some files make
Ghostscript fail (LP: #1449875).

-- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:35:09 -0300

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote on 2015-09-19:

This fix brings in 40 new packages that previously was not installed.

Is this a good solution?

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2015-09-19:

To the maintainer of texlive-lang:

Can the Recommends: of texlive-lang-cjk be demoted to Suggests:? Ghostscript only needs texlive-lang-cjk and nothing more for being able to render the attached file.

Alternatively, can the binary package texlive-lang-cjk be split into two packages, texlive-lang-cjk-gs containing all the files of the former texlive-lang-cjk and texlive-lang-cjk depending on texlive-lang-cjk-gs and recommending what texlive-lang-cjk recommended before. Then we let Ghostscript depend on texlive-lang-cjk-gs making only the files of this package getting onto the system and the rest of the world uses texlive-lang-cjk pulling in all the 40 extra packages.

WDYT?

Changed in texlive-lang (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote on 2015-09-19: Re: [Bug 1449875] Re: ghostscript fails on some EPS files

#10

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Can the Recommends: of texlive-lang-cjk be demoted to Suggests:?
> Ghostscript only needs texlive-lang-cjk and nothing more for being able
> to render the attached file.

Can you please be a bit more specific why this is a problem?
And *what* recommends you are talking about?
texlive-lang-japanese?
-chinese?
-korean?
ruby?
latex-cjk-all?

> Alternatively, can the binary package texlive-lang-cjk be split into two
> packages, texlive-lang-cjk-gs containing all the files of the former
> texlive-lang-cjk and texlive-lang-cjk depending on texlive-lang-cjk-gs
> and recommending what texlive-lang-cjk recommended before. Then we let
> Ghostscript depend on texlive-lang-cjk-gs making only the files of this
> package getting onto the system and the rest of the world uses texlive-
> lang-cjk pulling in all the 40 extra packages.

You could be more specific *what* the problem is ... what files
do gs need from which package. That would help.

Norbert

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2015-09-19:

#11

What is happening here is the following. With a standard Ubuntu Desktop installation Ghostscript is not able to render the file attached to this bug report. If one installs only the texlive-lang-cjk and nothing more (therefore "--no-install-recommends"), Ghostscript remders the attached file correctly.

This leads to the conclusion that adding the files contained in texlive-lang-cjk to the system fixes Ghostscript's problem to render the attached file.

Now a new problem occurs: If a package is installed, the system does not only install the requested package and its dependencies, but also all recommended packages. In our case we let Ghostscript recommend texlive-lang-cjk and so the system installs texlive-lang-cjk but also the packages which texlive-lang-cjk recommends, extra 40 unnecessary packages which take several 100 MB of space.

To not blow up the standard installation with unneeded stuff, I want to have texlive-lang-cjk added to the system, but nothing more.

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote on 2015-09-19:

#12

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> What is happening here is the following. With a standard Ubuntu Desktop
> installation Ghostscript is not able to render the file attached to this
> bug report. If one installs only the texlive-lang-cjk and nothing more
> (therefore "--no-install-recommends"), Ghostscript remders the attached
> file correctly.
>
> This leads to the conclusion that adding the files contained in texlive-
> lang-cjk to the system fixes Ghostscript's problem to render the
> attached file.

But which *added* file creates the problem? I am slightly
surprised about this, and can only possible blame it on
latex-cjk as the other packages do not do anything related to
ghostscript and do not add fonts to the general search path.

Can you please check what file is read by gs that creates the
problem?

Furthermore, *why* do you want gs recommends texlive-lang-cjk?
What do you need as gs from it?

Norbert

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2015-09-19:

#13

The problem of the added files is that these added files, 40 recommended packages, several 100 MB of unneeded data, make the standard installation too big.

texlive-lang-cjk seems to contain font information needed by the attached file to be correctly rendered by Ghostscript. At least installing this package as described in comment #6 solves the rendering problem. I cannot explain why, this is simply an observation.

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote on 2015-09-19:

#14

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> The problem of the added files is that these added files, 40 recommended
> packages, several 100 MB of unneeded data, make the standard
> installation too big.

Sorry, could you please try at least to stay on topic.
The bug is about an eps file that with the installation of
a package stopped being rendered.

This is completely independent from your wishlist about what
packages are recommended and what not.

Can we please separate actual problems (EPS not rendered) from
your packaging problems.

As Ubuntu you are free to change package relations at will.
I as Debian/TeX Live maintainer am interested in fixing a problem
where the installation of a package changes the behaviour of gs.

Norbert

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tista (tista) wrote on 2015-09-19:

#15

Dear developers,

Please rollback this change... This affects Gimp, Evince, Gnome-documents, Gnome-Sushi as well (libgs9-common depends). Actually on my Wily Gnome, needs 783MB additional disk space would be used.

Regards.

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote on 2015-09-19:

#16

You should just set texlive-lang-cjk as an *actual* Suggest: for ghostscript, not a Recommend:
Why? -
Well the Ubuntu image will not contain that package nor any texlive packages so the bug will still be present to the relatively few affected.
For them to fix they'd need to install texlive-lang-cjk manually anyway. (here texlive-lang-cjk is not a *listed* Recommend: of ghostscript or libgs9 or libgs9-common

The state or plight of users running an existing 15.10 dev install is irrelevant for the most part.

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote on 2015-09-19:

#17

I will amend the above -
On a fresh install texlive-lang-cjk does show as a recommend of libgs9-common. Still would need to be installed by the user so still seems making it a suggest would be better, what's the difference other than forcing 800+MB of unneeded packages on most users when it's a recommend.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2015-09-19:

#18

I have demoted texlive-lang-cjk from Recommends: to Suggests: in libgs9-common now.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-11-02:

#19

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in texlive-lang (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Bane (oddid) wrote on 2015-11-02:

#20

On my system (Kubuntu 15.4, latest updates 2015-11-02) only fonts-ipaexfont-mincho was necessary to process these files. texlive-lang-cjk depends on this package.
Could somebody check as well? Maybe the footprint of this fix can be further narrowed.

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shaneonabike (shanebill) wrote on 2015-12-02:

#21

I can confirm that installing textlive-lang-cjk actually resolved this issue. Can we resolve this by making whichever packages a requirement because having this work seemless is fairly important for designers and it's a simple fix (after you scower the internet for ages to find this bug :/)

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John C. (johnbendie) wrote on 2015-12-16:

#22

> Could somebody check as well? Maybe the footprint of this fix can be further narrowed.

@oddid I can confirm installing only `fonts-ipaexfont-mincho` fixes the problem and reduces the footprint needed to fix this issue. Thanks!

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Gabriel (gnuetzi) wrote on 2016-04-27:

#23

sudo apt-get install fonts-ipaexfont-mincho

fixed the issue under 15.04

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Gabriel (gnuetzi) wrote on 2016-04-27:

#24

I have a vanillar texlive installed by install-tl.sh

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pozitron (lisakov57) wrote on 2016-04-29:

#25

Run into the problem after updating to Ubuntu 16.04. Installing texlive-lang-cjk and reinstalling texlive-full didn't help me. I can view some eps, but can't view eps which has been created (even on the other machine) via python matplotlib with rc("text", usetex=True)

Python shows this plot via plt.show() fine, saving to pdf also works.

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pozitron (lisakov57) wrote on 2017-01-29:

#26

I still cannot view certain eps files on Ubuntu 16.04 with XFCE. I tried all of the proposed in this thread solutions but none of them works. What else can I try?