evince, thumbnailer, nautilus hang on text2ps postscript

Binary package hint: evince

Using evince 2.20.0 with gnome 2.20.0 under Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy on Dell GX280

To reproduce the problem,
Either
1)
- Use an editor (say, gedit),
    copy and paste the lines of this post past the "------------------" into the buffer,
    store the file as "file.ps"
or
2)
 - Create a file named "file.txt" containing a single line with text, say "Line 1"
 - Convert to postscript with
       text2ps file.txt >file.ps

Now you have a file called "file.ps" which causes the (2.20.0) versions of
evince, evince-thumbnailer, and nautilus to choke.

3) (Try) to create a thumbnail with
    evince-thumbnailer -s 128 file.ps file.png
    Open another terminal and do
    ps aux
    and note that the process with command "evince-thumbnailer -s 128 file.ps file.png" doesn't finish.

4) Note that Nautilus 2.20.0 "chokes" and no longer generates thumbnails for any directories,
    after it tries to generate a thumbnail for file.ps in the current directory.

5) (Try) to view file.ps with evince:
   evince file.ps
   Observe that evince reports "Loading..." forever.

----------------------------------- contents of file.ps ----------------------------------------
%!PS-Adobe-1.0
%%Creator: The program 'text2ps'
%%CreationDate: Mon Dec 31 10:48:22 2007
%%Title: File listing
%%Pages: (atend)
%%DocumentFonts: (atend)
%%EndComments

/nl {xline yline moveto show /yline yline yils sub def /xline colstart def} bind def
/bs {xline yline moveto dup show stringwidth pop xline add sw sub /xline exch def} bind def
/title {dup stringwidth pop 4 -1 roll exch sub 3 -1 roll moveto show } bind def
%%EndProlog

/textfont /Courier findfont 9 scalefont def
/yils 10.8 def
/clippath0 { newpath 59.0 999 moveto 59.0 -999 lineto 535.0 -999 lineto 535.0 999 lineto closepath } def
/#copies 1 def
%%Page: 1 1
textfont setfont
/sw ( ) stringwidth pop def
gsave
/yline 771.1 def
/xline 59.0 def
/colstart 59.0 def
clippath0 clip
(Line 1) nl
grestore
showpage
%%Trailer
%%DocumentFonts: Courier
%%Pages: 1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 31 10:27:14 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evince
ProcCwd: /home/hassard/chair/promotions/Hemmer
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux hassard 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux