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ps2write Problem with indexed CMYK Colorspace images

Bug #902145 reported by Till Kamppeter on 2011-12-09

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
GS-GPL	Fix Released	Medium	gs-afpl-bugzilla #692612
ghostscript (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned
Oneiric	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned	Ubuntu oneiric-updates

Bug Description

I have a problem with converting a PDF file created with Adobe InDesign CS5 to PostScript using pdf2ps. At least one of the imagedata values of an indexed CMYK image is assigned to a wrong color value of the color look up table.

In order to generate a simple test file for this bug I have converted the PDF to a PostScript file, using XPDF (XPDF has no problems with this kind of images). Then I have stripped down the resulting PS file to the image which produces the
error. I have attached this file to this bug report.

You can reproduce the error with this test file using ps2ps2 and the current Ghostscript 9.04. It seems that a value near 0 (->white) is assigned to the greatest (darkest) value of the color table. If I use Ghostcript 8.71 with the ps2write device the image is converted correctly.

To reproduce:

ps2ps2 gs-bug692612.ps gs-bug692612-new.ps
gs gs-bug692612.ps
gs gs-bug692612-new.ps

The original PostScript file shows correctly with a smooth transition bwtween thw gray area and the white background. The file generated by ps2ps2 shows a black line at the white end of the transition.

This problem is fixed in Ghostscript upstream: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692612

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Related branches

lp:ubuntu/precise/ghostscript

lp:ubuntu/oneiric-proposed/ghostscript

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-12-09:

gs-bug692612.ps Edit (87.5 KiB, application/postscript)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-12-09:

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.04~dfsg-2ubuntu6

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ghostscript (9.04~dfsg-2ubuntu6) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/020111209-5359a2d-do-not-use-hexadecimal-names-for-type42-charstrings-and-encoding.patch:
    Do not use hexadecimal names for type42 Charstrings and Encoding. This fixes
    substitution of certain characters by others when converting PDF to
    PostScript with the "ps2write" output device (LP: #898532, upstream bug
    #692711)
  * debian/patches/020111125-979f218-ps2write-fix-conversion-of-escaped-string-to-hex-string.patch:
    ps2write: Fix conversion of escaped string to Hex string (LP: #902145,
    upstream bug #692612).
-- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:45:59 +0100

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-12-09

Changed in gs-gpl:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-12-09:

ghostscript_9.04~dfsg-0ubuntu11.3_9.04~dfsg-0ubuntu11.4.debdiff Edit (4.4 KiB, text/plain)

Corrected Oneiric package of Ghostscript to fix this bug and bug 898532 uploaded to -proposed. As soon as the upload gets approved a separate comment will get posted here with instructions for testing the new package. Please test it and report back here, so that we can make it an official update for Oneiric.

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	New → Fix Committed
importance:	Undecided → Medium
milestone:	none → oneiric-updates

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2011-12-09: Please test proposed package

Hello Till, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ghostscript into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags:

added: verification-needed

Lars Karlitski (larsu) on 2011-12-12

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-12-12:

Lars, thank you very much for testing.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-12-19:

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.04~dfsg-0ubuntu11.4

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ghostscript (9.04~dfsg-0ubuntu11.4) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low