[bug-gs] gs 8.14 hanging |

[Ray Johnston]

Chris,

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I can't reproduce your problem.

I don't understand the '--' in the command line. That doesn't look
right, so I used:

gswin32c -dBATCH -dMaxBitmap=50000000 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=out 814_test.pdf -c quit

and it completed in .65 sec on my Athlon 2100 system.

If the '--' was part of your command line, and not introduced by
your mail tool, please delete it and retest. This works for me
with or without the '--' preceding the input file.

Note also that the -dBATCH makes the " -c quit" superfluous since
that is the purpose of -dBATCH (quit after the last input file).

Note: '--' is a command line option that tells Ghostscript to place
all remaining arguments in a PostScript array 'ARGUMENTS' (see
doc/Use.htm), so for a PDF file, any arguments following the
input file would be ignored (as well as for most PS files that
aren't written to use shell arguments).

Regards,
Ray Johnston
Artifex Software Inc.
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Chris Kempton wrote:

> 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.

-- 
Ray Johnston
Director of Engineering                          Tel: (714) 484-0376
Artifex Software Inc.                            Fax: (714) 220-1022
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