Bug 56825

Summary:	postscript figures are not displayed, white space shown instead
Product:	kdvi	Reporter:	Dmitry Telnov <root>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stefan Kebekus <kebekus>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hjelmsta
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dmitry Telnov 2003-04-04 03:04:47 UTC

Version:           1.0 (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:          Linux

Starting from KDE 3.1, the postscript figures included in the latex/dvi files with \includegraphics command are not shown by kdvi (white space is shown instead); there are no error meassages. At the same time,
xdvi works fine. The problem did not appear in KDE 3.0.5. I am using Slackware 9.0 Linux distribution. Thanks.

Comment 1 baoh.levisiteur 2003-04-17 15:40:57 UTC

Versione: 1.0 (using KDE 3.1.0) 
Installed from:  Mandrake 9.1 
OS: Linux 
 
I have exactly the same problem with Mandrake Linux 9.1 distribution.

Comment 2 Dmitry Telnov 2003-04-21 00:14:47 UTC

It seems I have solved the problem. It appears that ghostscript  
7.05.6 which comes with Slackware 9.0 no longer supports the  
driver png256. It is that driver which is called from kdvi to show  
postscript figures. I have replaced the png256 driver with pnmraw  
and recompiled kdegraphics. Now it works fine. Location:  
kdegraphics/kdvi/psgs.cpp, line 128.

Comment 3 Stefan Kebekus 2004-01-20 19:42:49 UTC

Thank you for your bug report, and please apologize my very, very late reaction. I will try and fix the issue now, so that a corrected version of KDVI will (hopefully) be included in KDE 3.2.1. Could you please send me the output of 

 gs --help

so that I can see what output drivers there are available?

Regards,

Stefan Kebekus.

Comment 4 Stefan Kebekus 2004-01-28 19:18:33 UTC

*** Bug 58687 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Stefan Kebekus 2004-02-21 14:09:48 UTC

Hello,

the problem that you have reported in kdvi (postscript figures are not displayed, white space shown instead) has been fixed in the latest CVS version of kdvi; the bugfix will be included in the KDE 3.2.1 release. If you have the possibility, please upgrade to the CVS version or to KDE 3.2 after it appears and close this bug report if you find that the problems are gone.

Regards,

Stefan Kebekus.