[bug-gs] gs 8.14 hanging

[Chris Kempton]

I use ghostscript along with imagemagick's convert to generate JPG
thumbnails of PDF pages.  When I upgraded to AFPL Ghostscript 8.13 (and
subsequently 8.14), I began seeing convert processes hang until I killed
them manually.  I can take convert out of the picture and reproduce the
behavior using this command:

gs -dBATCH -dMaxBitmap=50000000 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=out
-- ~/814_test.pdf -c quit

An example of a hanging PDF can be found here:

http://demo.baseview.com/~ckempton/814_test.pdf

AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 executes the above gs command on this PDF without
error.
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Chris Kempton
Systems Analyst
Baseview Products, Inc.