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[feisty] evince no longer displays postscript files

Bug #84836 reported by Michael R. Head
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #84709: wrong dependency from gs?. Edit Remove
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evince (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

Evince in feisty no longer seems to be able to open postscript files. I have converted the same files to pdf using my system's ps2pdf, and the pdf then displays OK.

Here's one example: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/NucleicAcid/longpart.ps

So far, I haven't been able to get it to show any actually postscript files. This worked in edgy.

Apparently, the interpreter is failing:

$ killall evince
$ evince longpart.ps

** (evince:7833): WARNING **: Interpreter failed.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Do you have gs-esp-x installed?

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote :

burner@phoenix:~$ dpkg -l gs-*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
pn gs-afpl <none> (no description available)
pn gs-aladdin <none> (no description available)
pn gs-cjk-resource <none> (no description available)
un gs-cjk-resource-6.0 <none> (no description available)
un gs-cjk-resource-6.5 <none> (no description available)
ii gs-common 0.3.11ubuntu1 Common files for different Ghostscript releases
ii gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-2ubuntu3 The Ghostscript PostScript interpreter - ESP version
pn gs-esp-dbgsym <none> (no description available)
pn gs-esp-x <none> (no description available)
pn gs-esp-x-dbgsym <none> (no description available)
un gs-fonts <none> (no description available)
pn gs-gpl <none> (no description available)
pn gs-gpl-dbgsym <none> (no description available)
un gs-pdfencrypt <none> (no description available)

Changed in evince:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote :

Hmmm.. that didn't paste as well as I expected. Anyway, only gs-esp and gsp-common are installed.

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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote :

After installing gs-esp-x, evince can display my postscript files. Is this an unmarked dependency or something?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in evince:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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