Evince cannot display ps file

Thanks for your bug. evince Depends on "gs-esp | gs", did you have one of those installed? Is your bug about a Depends issue or about some files not being open? The example from the .tgz seem to be incorrect:

"Operand stack:
   (CODE 39) (includecheck includetext)
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1123/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:80/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 165
ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1"

which is not an evince issue

Sebastien,

I tried it on two different PCs. I installed on one of them gs-gpl and after
that I was able to see ps document.

I report this as I miss error message in Evince that something is wrong.
Without message it is difficult for unexperienced user to fix it (like
instaling some missing gs package). I reported the bug as I am not happy that
Evince only prints "Loading...".

I don't know what is real problem; it could be mising dependency, or maybe
that my sample postrcript file was corrupted/incorrect. I am not expert on
this, developers should understand what is real issue and what is the best
workarround/fix.

From the point of desktop user I miss information from Evince that something
is wrong and document cannot be presented.

Thanks for your help,
Petr

------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:50:09 AM CEST
From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 58141] Re: Evince cannot display ps file

> Thanks for your bug. evince Depends on "gs-esp | gs", did you have one
> of those installed? Is your bug about a Depends issue or about some
> files not being open? The example from the .tgz seem to be incorrect:
>
> "Operand stack:
> (CODE 39) (includecheck includetext)
> Execution stack:
> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3
%oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
--nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
> --dict:1123/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:80/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 165
> ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1"
>
> which is not an evince issue
>
> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Untriaged => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> Evince cannot display ps file
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/58141
>

---------------------------------
  Petr Slansky, <email address hidden>
---------------------------------

Sebastien,

try to display barcodewriter.ps document. I guess that your error example is
from sample.ps.

I am not sure how postrcript works but you can get valid document when you
merge barcode.ps and sample.ps; sample.ps uses some definitions from
barcode.ps.

I got the same error as you when I tried ps2pdf on sample.ps. After merge
barcode.ps with sample.ps to the new document, ps2pdf generated pdf for me.

ps2pdf barcodewriter.ps works fine, it is valid postsrcipt file.

Try to display barcodewriter.ps in Evince. Try to remove gs interpreter from
your test PC and try again. After that try to display simple postscript
sample.

With regards,
Petr

------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:50:09 AM CEST
From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 58141] Re: Evince cannot display ps file

> Thanks for your bug. evince Depends on "gs-esp | gs", did you have one
> of those installed? Is your bug about a Depends issue or about some
> files not being open? The example from the .tgz seem to be incorrect:
>
> "Operand stack:
> (CODE 39) (includecheck includetext)
> Execution stack:
> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3
%oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
--nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
> --dict:1123/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:80/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 165
> ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1"
>
> which is not an evince issue
>
> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Untriaged => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> Evince cannot display ps file
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/58141
>

---------------------------------
  Petr Slansky, <email address hidden>
---------------------------------

Maybe that I was wrong and I my analyse was not correct. Problem is not missing gs-gpl package.

Try this from command line:

1) echo "This is just a evince bug demonstartion" >test.pdf
2) evince test.ps
3) you will see only "loading..." forever, no error message that test.ps is not correct postscript file.

You can see some error message in command line but user that has no knowladge about command line and he only use mouse to open files will never see such message. And it is clear that evince ignores message from postscript interpreter. Evince is not user friendly software...

Sorry, the first step should be:

1) echo "This is just a evince bug demonstartion" >test.ps

But you cant try thesame with pdf file; you will get error message in that case.

I forwarded the bug to the upstream developers: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353802

Upstream is discussing a patch.

fixed upstream

That upload fixes the problem:

 evince (0.7.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     New Features and UI Improvements:
     - Document thumbnail is used as window icon
     - Support for gzipped and bzipped document types (Ubuntu: #17399)
     - A lot of new icons
     - Finally working history button
     Internal Improvements:
     - Developer gtk-doc based documentation
     - More dogtail tests
     Bug Fixes:
     - Fontconfig lock to avoid crashes
     - Critical crash fix by checking return value from psscan (Ubuntu: #58141)
     - Critical crash fix in nautilus property page and broken ODF
     - Critical crash fix with multifile djvu documents
     - Multithreaded gtk problems fix by using async gnome-vfs (Ubuntu: #45957)
   * debian/control.in:
     - Build-Depends on libgnome2-dev (>= 2.14.0),
       and libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.70) rather than (>= 0.71)
   * debian/patches/02_autoconf.patch:
     - updated

I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and the evince document viewer installed in my system is 2.22.1.1.
I opened the document in Open Office and this is what the first four lines showed:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Title: (lee9801.pdf)
%%Creator: (Acrobat Exchange 3.0: LaserWriter 8 8.4.3)
%%CreationDate: (10:46 Jeudi, 28 mai 1998)

I don't know how to debug the problem. Please help.

Thank you very much.