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From: pm860605@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Peter J. McKinney)
Subject: Re: Ghostscript for windows
Organization: Colorado State University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:10:55 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.192911.6888@news.yale.edu> dipak@radiant.NOname (Dipak Chowdhury) writes:
>From: dipak@radiant.NOname (Dipak Chowdhury)
>Subject: Ghostscript for windows
>Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:29:11 GMT
>I am having problem running Ghostscript 2.5.2 under Windows 3.1. It opens a window and then
>it dies. Is there any especial setup in the win.ini file that I need to do? Did anyond have the same
>problem? Thanks in advance.
>		                              dipak@radiant.eng.yale.edu
>
>
>
Make sure you have the most recent MSDOS distribution files (they're
available on simtel and mirrors).  There was a version mixup in the original 
2.5.2 posting which has since been corrected.

- Pete
____________________________________________________________________________
| Peter J. McKinney                     pm860605@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu |
| Electrohydrodynamic Laboratory                                           |
| Fluid Mechanics and Wind Engineering Program                             |
| Civil Engineering Department                                             |
| Colorado State University                                                |
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| Peter J. McKinney                     pm860605@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu |
| Electrohydrodynamic Laboratory                                           |
| Fluid Mechanics and Wind Engineering Program                             |
| Civil Engineering Department                                             |
| Colorado State University                                                |
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: rjm@inf.rl.ac.UK (Roger May)
Subject: GS erasepage Bug....
Reply-To: rjm@inf.rl.ac.uk
Organization: SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL)
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:15:40 GMT

I have been using Ghostscript 2.5.1 under XR5 on a Sparc IPC running SunOS 4.1.1
compiled using the bundled compiler cc.

Right thats the hard/software details over with. Now the bug...

There seems to be a problem with erasepage and transfer functions.

Execute the following code :-

%!
{ 1 exch sub } settransfer
erasepage
showpage


This should cause the page to be black, as the transfer function should reverse black
and white, but it doesn't it just blanks the page in white.

The code executed correctly when sent to an Adobe interpreter or RALpage


Roger

---
 


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: bergman@panix.COM (Mark Bergman)
Subject: HPLJ IIIP Problems
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:06:13 GMT

I'm trying to use the latest version of Ghostscript to print
to my HP IIIP. The best output so far has been using the
	-sDEVICE=ljetplus
switch. Even in this case, it is rare to get a single page
error free. For example, printing the output from
	prfont.ps
with just the Times-Roman font specified produces 3/4 of a
page that is acceptable, then there are lines that are cut
off and garbled. This is followed by several blank pages,
then a garbled second page of output. Frequently the garbled
pages have non-graphics (native HP Courier font?)
characters.

All the sample .ps files (and others) preview on-screen
corrrectly.

If anyone has a screen previewer for HP-PCL language
graphics files, I'd like to check whether the problem is on
the printer side or the file produced by Ghostscript is
corrupt.

Enivronment/Hardware:
	486-33 8MB RAM
	HP LJ IIIP, 3MB
	VGA Monitor
	MS-DOS 5.0
	MKS Toolkit

My hope is to get Ghostscript working smoothly with groff so
that I can troff==>HPLJ on my pc. If anyone has this
combination working, or has ported psroff to DOS, please let
me know.



Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: leichter@cs.widener.edu (Seth Leichter)
Subject: gs smearing
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:34:45 GMT

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Re: Problems with ghostscript 2.5.x
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Widener University CS Department, Chester PA
Keywords: 

[note: I tried a followup from news but there was no moderator address
here, so I am mailing it to the approved: address and hoping it gets
to the right people.]

In article <9210122232.1.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:
>Re <9210130424.AA19554@cookie-crisp> <2368@forty2.physik.unizh.ch>:
>
>> 1. Problem with bj10e printer driver

>>    One recognizes the line structure of the text, but each line is sort
>>    of smeard out and just a gray-shaded sort of thing across the page.
>>    No problem with ghostscript 2.4 however.

I had the same problem with several fonts in gs2.5 up but not in 2.4.
It occured with the gif8 x11 and ljet3 drivers.  It finally turned out
to be gcc 2.2.2(?) with the -O2 optimization.  Compiling with just -O
works fine, and I do know that this has been fixed in the upcoming
release of the compiler, due out any time now.

(The specific problems were the new charter and courier fonts and the
chess example.  I also have the computer modern fonts installed in ps
and they "smeared" also.)


--
leichter@cs.widener.edu  /  Seth leichter  / Widener Univ. / Chester, PA
"I think its a bit fascist, the way some people go around being honest
with everyone. It's my democratic right as an American citizen to live
with a few comfortable lies, and I like to extend that right to my friends."
				-- from "Shade: The Changing Man #26"


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ulrich@galki.toppoint.DE (Ulrich Gall)
Subject: Wanted: 32 bit YMCK device
Organization: private UUCP site, Kiel, Germany
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:01:33 GMT

I am looking for a ghostscript device that will create a 32 bit YMCK file
format. Preferably, this should be line-interleaved such as Scitex CT or
pixel-interleaved (like TIFF).
      
ANY help will be appreciated.      

Thanks in advance,

Ulrich
Ulrich Gall, Seebrooksberg 2, W-2300 Klausdorf, Germany
Tel.: +49-431-790292, EMail: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de


Ulrich Gall, Seebrooksberg 2, W-2300 Klausdorf, Germany
Tel.: +49-431-790292, EMail: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: GS25 can't display Brian Reid's PS maps from news.lists.ps-maps
Organization: CS
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:04:01 GMT

Decstation 5000/240, Ultrix 4.2C, GS25 with ghostview 1.3...

When trying to view the USENET PS maps posted to news.lists.ps-maps, I
get incorrect output. The country outlines are drawn fine, but then
all the flow lines/circle end up as big gobs of vertical black lines...

It could be a problem with the postscript, but DEC's dxpsview doesn't have
any problem with 'em.

Any hints appreciated.  Or is this solved in 2.5.2?
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: leisner@wrc.xerox.COM ( Marty Leisner)
Subject: multiple bits per pixel on X?
Reply-To: leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
Organization: Xerox
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:03:31 GMT

(I may have tried to post this but don't think it got out)

I noticed the text in X looks quite poor, and it looks like its using
1 bit/pixel.  It seems a shame not to use more grey values to make the
text look better (most documents are black and white).

Is work being done in this area and how hard is this?

--
marty
leisner.henr801c@xerox.com  
Member of the League for Programming Freedom

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: chansze@ecf.toronto.edu (CHAN Sze Keong)
Subject: converting postscript
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:14:16 GMT

hi there all you gurus, 

    i would like to know if there are any programs out there
    to convert postscript to other formats (eg. raw, ppm ..etc).
    so far i could only find xxx to ps but not the other way round. 
    i know that i can convert to ppm interactively with ghostscript
    but i would like to do this un-interactively. :-)

    any hints , tips , pointers would be welcomed.

thanks in advance,
dennis

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Why doesn't gs386 support DPMI?
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:02:31 GMT

Re <9210140117.AA23619@cookie-crisp>
<1992Oct13.054447.12316@leland.Stanford.EDU>:

> I'm getting tired of all the programs that use some proprietary
> memory manager that's incompatible with Dos Protected Mode Interface.
> I'm no DOS programmer, so maybe it's hard to use, but it just makes
> the product impossible to use.  I heard that a 386 protected mode
> program should first check to see if something else is running in
> protected mode and use DPMI if available.  Then I could run gs386
> in an OS/2 DOS box or a windows DOS box, and take advantage of my
> semi-blazing 486/33.
> 
> Comments?

Ghostscript uses a royalty-free DOS extender written by Rational and
provided by Watcom.  If you know of a commercial C compiler that
generates true 32-bit code and comes with a royalty-free
DPMI-compatible extender, please tell me how to get it; I'd be happy
to consider switching.  (For this purpose, I don't consider dgjcc and
dgjpp to be commercial compilers.)

			Thanks --

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; voice 415-322-0103 ; fax 322-1734
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."




Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Tektronix 4693DX
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:06:50 GMT

Re <9210151650.AA28526@cookie-crisp>
<1992Oct15.150255.12913@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>:

> I would like to print PostScript files on a Tektronix 4693DX
> color printer. Is there any way to do it?

A user has contributed a driver for the Tek 4693d, with which I
assume the DX is compatible.  It will be included in the next
release, but I can e-mail it to you now.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; voice 415-322-0103 ; fax 322-1734
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."




Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: raeker@tc4.fi.ameslab.gov (Todd J. Raeker)
Subject: star color printers
Reply-To: raeker@tc4.fi.ameslab.gov (Todd J. Raeker)
Organization: Iowa State University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:32:41 GMT

As an addition to a previous post about star NL10 trouble, has
anyone written a gs driver for the star color printers?  I have
one and would like very much to use the color features with
gs.  I can try to write my own but I am a begining c programmer
so I would most likely have lots of trouble.  If nobody else has
written or wnats to write one then I will try.  Thanks for any help.


-- 


Dr. Todd J. Raeker           |      307B Wilhelm Hall
raeker@tc4.fi.ameslab.gov    |      Iowa State University
Phone (515)-294-9927         |      Ames Laboratory, USDOE
FAX   (515)-294-5204         |      Ames, Iowa 50011

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: tp@mccall.COM (Terry Poot)
Subject: converting bitmaps
Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:55:37 GMT


Has anyone put together anything to "generalize" the type1imagepath operator?
What I'd like to be able to do is to feed Ghostscript a bitmap image and get
back a set of postscript instructions (lines, curves, fills, strokes, etc.) to
draw the image. I know this is essentially what bdftops does (and how the
Ghostscript fonts were created), but it is very specific, reading a bdf file and
producing a font. 

I was wondering if anyone had set up something to read an image and then extract
the drawing data from the results of type1imagepath. I can probably figure out
how to do it, but it's a wheel I'd rather not have to invent, if possible. I'm
trying to convert smallish black and white scanned (and manually cleaned up)
images to something I I can afford to store and transmit reasonably well. 

Alternatively, does anyone know of any other software to convert bitmaps to
line/curve drawings?

Thanks
--
Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com>                   The McCall Pattern Company
(uucp: ...!rutgers!depot!mccall!tp)          615 McCall Road
(800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041           Manhattan, KS 66502, USA

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: arjen@disnet.UUCP (Arjen Duursma)
Subject: Using epson drivers with Star-NL10 printer
Summary: problems printing ghostscript with star nl10
Keywords: epson star nl10
Organization: Disnet, IDE Maassluis, The Netherlands
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 07:26:40 GMT

Hello fellow netters,

I have tried to use the epson drivers of GS2.5 and GS2.5.2 with a
(9-pins) Star NL10 which so far allways used to be Epson compatible.

With ghostscript however the output looks terible. When I try to use it
as a line printer with gslp and look at the binary result and the
printer handbook, everything looks OK. But the printer doesn't seem to
respond to the tabsetting commands to well. This results in missing
spaces, overstriking and great distance between the upper and lower part
of the "p" and "g" in "page 1".

Is anyone else experiencing the same problems with Start NL10 or other
epson compatible printers or have I done something wrong.

Greetings

Arjen

PS. Things get even worse when I use a file name like c:\config.sys. Can
this be related to \c being some escape for G(P)ostscript?

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Ghostview 1.3 with ghostscript 2.5.2
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:40:38 GMT

Re <9210070231.AA00494@cookie-crisp>
<1992Oct6.133744.3475@aquila.sni-usa.com>:

> We have previously been able to run ghostview 1.3 with ghostscript 2.4.2.
> We have recently built ghostscript 2.5.2.
> 
> When running ghostview with ghostscript 2.5.2, ghostscript seems to receive
> something unexpected.
> 
> The error message is:
> 
>     Unrecoverable error: undefined in execute0
>     Operand stack:
>         --nostringval--
>     Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> 
> This happens with any postscript file.  Does anyone have any ideas about
> what might be wrong?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I suspect you are accidentally running the 2.5.2 executable with an
incompatible (obsolete) set of gs_*.ps files, or vice versa.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; voice 415-322-0103 ; fax 322-1734
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."
From: ulrich@galki.toppoint.DE (Ulrich Gall)
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Problems reading QXP EPS files from the Mac
Date: 16 Oct 92 12:02:19 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: private UUCP site, Kiel, Germany

HELP!
      
I need a way to have ghostscript convert EPS files from QuarkXPress. I want 4
output files (pgm) for the four separations Y, M, C and K.

This works fine with .PS files (created by having Quark 'print' the page to a
file).

However, if I try the same GS command for an EPS file, GS converts the EPS
file to ONE pgm file that contains a grayscale image. GS seem to READ all four
colors, but it generates a black and white image.


Thanks a lot,
                Ulrich

Ulrich Gall, Seebrooksberg 2, W-2300 Klausdorf, Germany
Tel.: +49-431-790292, EMail: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Cannot run PS-files with GS2.5.2 on VMS5.5
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:38:48 GMT

> Hi everybody,
> yesterday I compiled the GS2.5.2 on my VAX. I made only ONE change in
> the VMS-CC.MAK-file, that was changing the supported device from X11 to
> EPSON. Well, after making GS.EXE, I tried three PS-files with it and
> all of them stopped with the same error. Here's the protocol of
> ALPHABET.PS (was delivered with GS):
> $ set def dua0:[temp]
> $ gs :== $dua0:[temp.gs252]gs.exe
> $ def gs_lib "dua0:[temp.restore];dua0:[temp.gs252]"
> $ def gs_lib_default "dua0:[temp.restore];dua0:[temp.gs252]"
> $ gs alphabet
> 
> Initializing... done.
> Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--
> Operand stack:
>    (alphabet)  (r)
> Execution stack:
>     %interp_exit    --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  
> --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>     391/479  4/200
> Ghostscript 2.5.2 (9/20/92)Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
> 
>  All rights reserved.
> Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY
> : see the file LICENSE for details.
> GS<2>quit

Ghostscript tried to open the file you specified -- the file named
alphabet.  If you wanted to process the file named alphabet.ps, you
should have specified alphabet.ps.  Nothing in the Ghostscript
documentation suggests that Ghostscript tries adding extensions to
file names, as far as I know.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; voice 415-322-0103 ; fax 322-1734
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."





Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: bruce-b@cs.AUkuni.ac.NZ (Bruce Benson)
Subject: Beginner needs help...
Followup-To: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Organization: computer Science
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:47:51 GMT

Hi, I only got interested in ghostscript yesterday when I foolishly
disagreed with my boss about printing postscript to an HP deskwriterC ...
After ftp'ing 2.4.1, patching it to 2.5.2 and building it I agree with my
boss, it does what he wanted, but I noticed some wierd things on the way.

(I'm using DecStations running Ultrix4.1 (and 4.2) trying to build gs252)

Firstly the patch files had lines to say that certain files didn't have
nulls at the end. My version of patch wouldn't handle this. I took a guess
that they probably wouldn't matter in a UNIX system and blatted them...
(Were any of them really significant?)
(I got patch-2.0.12u7 but this was after I had removed the offending lines
so I don't have anything to try out the new version of patch with. Would it
have helped?)

Next I tried to build it with gcc2.2.2 it compiled but when run it produced
rubbish in the X11 display. So I tried again using the MIPS compiler
(2.10). However this would not compile the files gdevmem1.c, gdevmem2.c or
gdevmem3.c (with or without -O, it made no difference). It gave me the
error: 
> cpp: error ./gdevmem.h:134: undefined control
(I admit that I have looked at line 134 in gdevmem.h and couldn't see what
it was wrong with it...)
I compiled these three with gcc, made the rest with cc and a working thing
came out the other end. What have other Ultrix people done?

At least it displayed things OK on xwindows. (Well they were kind of
crunched and distorted due to scaling but I guess thats normal, yes?).
Anyway, I then tried to get it to output to an HP deskwriter C, or at least
out to a file in a form that I could blat at the deskwriter. I sent the
file to the printer this using the iwpr program which comes with CAP. I
tried various drivers (deskjet, cdeskjet, cdjmono, cdjcolor and
paintjet[but I only tried this one once :-)] ). It worked OK for the
colorcir.ps and tiger.ps examples which came with the distribution but with
all my own postscript things and the other examples did not print
completely. For instance a man page I had fed though groff to get
postscript lost a couple of lines off the bottom and the printer stopped
after only drawing the tops of the letters on the last line it did draw.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Is it iwpr or gs causing this?

(The motivation for this is that we have recently brought a RasterOps
CorrectPrint 300 color printer. It prints wonderful stuff but costs many
$$$ a page. We thought the deskwriter would make a nice draft printer if we
could feed it postscript so that we could feed the same file to both
printers...)

Comments on any or all of the above most welcome.

---
Bruce Benson.   	       	       	       	       ,_o ,__o
Department of Computer Science. 	       	     _-\_\,\_<,
University of Auckland. 	       	       	    (*)/'--/'(*)
b_benson@cs.aukuni.ac.nz

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Patches to zcro.gsf, ptmri.gsf
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:05:37 GMT

Re <9210150248.AA27036@cookie-crisp>
<1992Oct14.044300.10036@panix.com>:

> I discoved a typo in the zcro.gsf and ptmri.gsf fonts.
> "diff" output is given below.

The files must have been corrupted in the process of being
transferred to your system.  They are correct in the distribution on
ftp.cs.wisc.edu.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; voice 415-322-0103 ; fax 322-1734
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."




Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: troth@rice.edu (Rick Troth)
Subject: GhostScript and Xerox
Keywords: xerox
Reply-To: Rick Troth <troth@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:43:45 GMT

[probably not the right place,  but where else?]

Has anyone used GhostScript as part of a  PS ---> Xerox 4050  path?
We've got this nice 50ppm Xerox LPS and a hunk of a CPU behind it
and I'd like to have it talk PostScript.   (please don't suggest
any of the well known  "outboard"  solutions;  I'm not interested)

--
 Rick Troth <TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> ------------- Rice ONCS VM Systems Support

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Subject: ghostview file selection mechanism
Followup-To: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Organization: Ag Engineering Dept, Purdue University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:06:56 GMT

We are experiencing problems with the file selection mechanism
here at Purdue (which has a large computer network). According
to local staff:

> Whenever /home is listed in one of the ghostview file
> selection boxes ghostview stats all the /home/* directories which
> causes the automounter to go out and try to mount the over 200 /home/*
> directories we have at ECN.  Unfortunately the automounter isn't always
> up to this task and it will sometimes wedge up preventing access to all
> automounted files

e.g., my home directory is /home/bluestem/mccauley. So, whenever
I crank up ghostview, it tries to stat everything in /home.

May I suggest a better file selection mechanism?  Instead of listing
all directories two levels up, how about listing just the files in
the cwd with an additional button which says "go up one directory" 
or ".."?  This is similar to how many other packages work (e.g., FrameMaker,
IslandWrite).

-- 
James Darrell McCauley                    Dept of Ag Engineering, Purdue Univ
internet: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu         West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1146
bitnet: mccauley%ecn@purccvm              UUCP: pur-ee!mccauley

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug