Bug#487530: Doesn't render postscript files any longer

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Tue Jul 1 21:48:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 21:45 -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> The postscript generated by gecko/1.8 is buggy.  Libspectre added a
> patch only recently to work around such PS files.
> 
> Older versions of evince called gs(1) to render PS; those were not
> affected by the incorrect postscript; recent versions use libspectre
> (which is a wrapper around libgs).  If your evince uses libspectre you
> need a version newer than 0.2.0.  (I only have deb on servers, so cannot
> quickly check.)
> 
> Cf. http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14384

Hi,

In that case, this bug should be merged with 484645, which I already
have reassigned to libspectre.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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