[bug-gs] Bug report - assertion failure in gs 8.13

[Russell Lang]

Maurizio,

That assert in gxccman.c is due to a known bug in Ghostscript, 
that wasn't fixed until just after 8.13 was released.  Until it 
is fixed in a release version, either use GS 8.11 or disable 
text anti-aliasing in your viewer.
  http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687241

Russell


On 11 Jan 2004 at 17:47, Maurizio Loreti wrote:

> To: bug-gs at ghostscript.com
> 
> This is a bug report.  Files I used to view with Ghostscript 8.11 fail
> with 8.12 and 8.13.  I am enclosing a small minimal example produced
> by xfig, that fails with:
> 
> gs: src/gxccman.c:574: gx_add_cached_char: Assertion `cc->pair == pair' failed.
> 
> xfig is version 3.2.4, compiled by gcc 3.3.2; the file is a segment of
> line and the letter A in Times-Roman.  Ghostscript 8.11, 8.12 and 8.13
> are all built with gcc 3.3.2 on Linux i686-pc-linux-gnu systems
> (RedHat 7.3, RedHat 8 and RedHat 9).
> 
> I am now unable to perform additional tests, having downgraded all my
> cluster (17 computers running Linux) to 8.11 --- we use for our
> documentation LaTeX+xfig; and almost all of our files fail with gs
> 8.13.
> 
> I hope that bug report will be useful; thank you for the great job you
> are doing for the free software community!
> 
> Attachments: 1) the failing eps file 2) the original xfig file.
> 
> -- 
> Maurizio Loreti                         http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
> Univ. of Padova, Dept. of Physics - Padova, Italy            loreti at pd.infn.it


Russell Lang                   gsview at ghostgum.com.au
Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd      http://www.ghostgum.com.au/