[SOLVED] Can't open (E)PS files with text in Feisty

[Gerhard Kremer]

	To whom may be interested: I solved the problem. After some tinkering with 
the installation, I found out that the problem was in the "improved" gs-esp 
Ghostscript interpreter. I removed it, installed the old gs-gpl package and 
presto! Everything works perfectly now.

On Friday 18 May 2007 14:14:18 Gerhard Kremer wrote:
> 	Greetings,
>
> 	I have come across a very bizarre bug in Kubuntu. I hope somebody can help
> me.
>
> 	I draw a figure containing text with Inkscape and export it to either PS
> or EPS. When I try to open said figure with *any* ghostscript reader (gv,
> kghostview, evince . . .), the hard disk begins to work at 100% and the
> computer becomes unusably slow; the reader isn't able to open the figure
> and begins to suck in system memory (as reported by top). I have to
> terminate the process with CTRL+C on the terminal to continue using the
> computer.
>
> 	If I try to open the same figure without any text, it opens and is
> displayed normally. The problem occurs only when there is text, even a
> single character. Besides, I've tried the same figures on the same computer
> but on a separate partition running plain Ubuntu, and they display
> normally, text or not. The same figures would also open without problems
> under Kubuntu Edgy and Dapper on the same computer. It seems to be an
> exclusively Kubuntu Feisty problem. I have replicated exactly the same
> behavior on another laptop with an out-of-the-box Kubuntu Feisty
> installation.
>
> 	Any hints? Somebody has any idea of what is happening? Since I use my
> computer for LaTeX typesetting and I have to draw figures with text on them
> very often, this is a crippling issue for me; if I can't solve it, I'd have
> to switch to Ubuntu and GNOME (which I'd regret - - been there, didn't like
> it, came back to the KDE fold). I'd like to avoid that.
>
> 	Thank you in advance,
>
> 	- GK -



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