Problems with Cernlib-2006

[Kevin B. McCarty]

Angelo,

There was a patch regarding printing that went into Cernlib 2006 that
fixed postscript output problems observed by someone else.  Probably
this is related.  You can take a look at the history of the earlier
bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/329207 .

The patch as suggested by Frank Dohrmann exists in the version of
Cernlib 2005 in Debian "Etch", but upstream changed it slightly before
incorporating it into Cernlib 2006 (now in Debian Lenny and Sid, and
in Ubuntu Gutsy and more recent).  I've attached a file "test-etch.ps"
created with your PAW macro on my machine running Etch.  If you use
the attached file as input to GV or GSview, does it exhibit the
problem, or not?

- Kevin

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Angelo Graziosi
<Angelo.Graziosi at roma1.infn.it> wrote:
>
>
> I do not know if you are still interested to these things but it seems that
> there is some problems with Cernlib-2006.
>
> I have a fortran program (GEANT simulation) which outputs figures (one per
> page) in a PS file. I can see the PS file with GV or GSView but if I extract
> a page from it to another PS file, the page are wrong, only a wrong part of
> the figure is visible and GV or GSView do not emit any message.
>
> The same happens with PAW. I have attached a simple test case to reproduce
> the thing.
>
> The PAW macro, test.kumac, produces a PS file with four pages (test.ps). If
> one extracts, for example the page 3 (with GV, mark page 3 and 'Save Marked'
> produces test.ps_pages) then reading it with GV (or GSView) shows that it is
> wrong, but without error messages.
>
> I have found these problems both on GNU/Linux Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy with the
> CERNLIB of this distribution (are you the maintainer?), both on Cygwin with
> my build of Cernlib.
>
> If I use GSView on Windows, the same things happen.
>
> Restoring Cernlib-2005 (Vogt, CERN binaries, my build etc., on linux or
> Cygwin...) fixes the problems!
>
> So it looks as a BUG of Cernlib-2006.
>
>
> Cheers,
>    Angelo.



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