Bug#728888: evince: ps file is not shown in evince, probably due to not finding the needed font

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 6 14:45:50 UTC 2013


Package: evince
Version: 3.8.3-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

evince does not open the attached minimal-example.ps file, it just says 
loading, instead of showing the Delta.
Both the nautilus thumbnailer and ghostscript show this file correctly.
The error message in the terminal is:
$ evince minimal-example.ps
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
invalidaccess -7

(evince:23674): EvinceDocument-CRITICAL **: 
ev_document_misc_pixbuf_from_surface: assertion `surface' failed
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
invalidaccess -7
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return 
code = -1
invalidaccess -7


This is probably due to some font problem, as can be seen from the 
minimal-example.ps:
After commenting out the lines 286-288, evince can load the ps (see 
minimal-example-working.ps). But then it shows no Delta, instead it 
shows a D.
line 286:/Symbol findfont
line 287:/Font30 exch definefont pop
line 288:/Font30 FFSF

Please fix this as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Andreas


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 
'testing-updates'), (70, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common              3.8.3-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.10.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.17-93
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libevdocument3-4           3.8.3-2
ii  libevview3-3               3.8.3-2
ii  libgail-3-0                3.8.4-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.28.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.36.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.8.4-1
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.4.2-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libsecret-1-0              0.15-2
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  shared-mime-info           1.0-1+b1
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.6.16-1
ii  gvfs      1.16.3-1+b1

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  nautilus      3.8.2-2
ii  poppler-data  0.4.6-4
pn  unrar         <none>

-- no debconf information

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