[bug-gs] gs 8.14 hanging |

[Ray Johnston]

Chris,

I am forwarding this to a couple of Artifex folks that have Mac's.

It may be an 'endian' issue since PPC is big-endian and Intel is
little.

BTW, there is a mac-gs at ghostscript.com mailing list that will be
read by Mac possessors.

Regards,
Ray
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Chris Kempton wrote:
>>On 3/26/04 3:28 PM, Ray Johnston wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to look at the file :-)
> 
> "gswin32c" indicates to me that you are running Ghostscript on Windows.  I
> should have mentioned in my initial post that I have reproduced my problem
> only on on FreeBSD 4.4 and Mac OS X 10.3.3.  I haven't tried it on any other
> platforms.
> 
> The '--' option does not seem to play a role in my hanging problem.  Here is
> an amended command, which produces the same behavior (on FreeBSD & Mac OS X)
> as reported in my initial post:
> 
> gs -dBATCH -dMaxBitmap=50000000 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=out
> 814_test.pdf
> 
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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.
> --