Bug 132916 - poster -20060221: PostScript error on opening output file
Summary: poster -20060221: PostScript error on opening output file
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kdeprint
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2006-08-24 13:18 UTC by Thomas Bettler
Modified: 2011-05-27 18:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Thomas Bettler 2006-08-24 13:18:51 UTC
Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.5.4, Gentoo)
Compiler:          Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.17-gentoo-r5

Using the 20060221 version of poster (ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/printing/) I get a PostScript error returned:

Error: /syntaxerror
 in --%ztokenexec_continue--

Operand stack:
   print_content_of_complete_page_0   --nostringval--
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringv
al--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1  
 %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostr
ingval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1127/1686(ro)(G)-
-   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:87/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
GPL Ghostscript 
8.54
: 
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


The version 20050907 works well and doesn't show this error.
Comment 1 Thomas Bettler 2006-08-24 13:22:50 UTC
Neither my printer (HP LaserJet 1014) accepts the output of poster-20060221.
Comment 2 Thomas Bettler 2006-08-25 15:40:26 UTC
Hi Paulus. I saw your Name in the Changelog. Could you have a look at this?

Thank you
Comment 3 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-10-19 21:38:26 UTC
I came across this bug report only now, because a comment in <a href="http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3051">my blog</a> about poster linked to it.

Thomas, 
can you provide more info? 

* Did you see this error while using the poster utility via kprinter's 'Poster' tab?
* Did you see this error only sporadically, or for each and every PostScript file you tried with poster?


What we also need:

 (a) steps to reproduce this error; settings you used on the 'Poster' tab of kprinter.
 (b) an example PostScript file that triggers this error.

Without this additional info, this bug report will be closed as INVALID.

BTW, poster works for me. (openSUSE-10.2, which uses the source from poster-20020826-184.src.rpm). I'm not aware of who worked and updated poster after 2002 anyway, but I'll find out as soon as the download from ftp.kde.org works again for me.
Comment 4 Cristian Tibirna 2007-10-20 02:38:26 UTC
Poster 200602 works for me in the conditions of my test. Please provide more information.
Comment 5 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-10-22 16:03:12 UTC
Collecting available bug reports (thanks to Peter S Galbraith from Debian):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379378
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339038
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255718
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361088
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321299

According to Debian bug number 339038, these files show problems with a poster version as provided by KDE:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=25;filename=p2.ps.gz;att=1;bug=339038
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=25;filename=pbug.ps.gz;att=2;bug=339038

Here's another non-working file (ATTENTION, 7 MByte):
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/ls_juenger/people/lange/poster-not-working.ps.gz
(this one is created by dvips -- an app that is on CUPS forums infamous for producing non-DSC compliant PostScript, despite claiming to do so).

Comment 6 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:23:02 UTC
KDEPrint is obsolete, unmaintained and will never be revived.  Closing all open bugs.