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Bug#314169: marked as done (gs: unhelpful error when -sOutputFile missing (Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--))

Your message dated Thu, 04 Jan 2024 23:14:28 -0600
with message-id <5516180.29KlJPOoH8@riemann>
and subject line Re: gs: gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw fails with unrecoverable error
has caused the Debian Bug report #314169,
regarding gs: unhelpful error when -sOutputFile missing (Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--)
to be marked as done.

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Package: gs
Version: 8.01-5
Severity: important

Hello,

when calling gs with the option -sDEVICE=ppmraw, 
	36> gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw fax-eltern-1.ps
it fails with this error message: 
--
GPL Ghostscript 8.01 (2004-01-30)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--
Operand stack:
   1   true
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --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   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   0   5   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1048/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--   --dict:55/75(L)--   --dict:11/14(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 94816
GPL Ghostscript 8.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
--

The same happens when trying to open the PS file with 'xv', because
that program calls 'gs' with the option -sDEVICE=ppmraw. That worked
without problem in Debian 3.0 and the old version of 'gs'. 

Thanks,
Uwe Muench
muench@xamail.missouri.edu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gs depends on:
ii  gs-gpl                        8.01-5     The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int

-- no debconf information

-- 
Uwe Muench, Campus Missionary Aide, Chi Alpha Campus Ministries @ UCLA
1246 Wellesley Ave, Apt #10, Los Angeles CA, 90025, Phone: +1-573-489-4589
muench@xamail.missouri.edu	   http://www.grav.missouri.edu/~muench/
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime (Ps 30:5)

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:24:06 -0600 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> submitter 314169 !
> severity 314169 wishlist
> quit
> 
> Uwe Muench wrote:
> 
> > wow,  that bug report is like 5 and a half years old... Sorry, I
> > don't have that system or that file anymore... 
> > I only remember that 'xv' automatically created the 'gs' call and
> > that it had worked with the older version (at that time) of gs.
> > Sorry that I can't even test the problem anymore or give any more
> > input...
> 
> No problem.  The problem is not file-specific, so it's just a question
> of whether it is feasible to keep support for the implicit output file
> behavior xv was relying on (or perhaps to improve the error message).
> If I find time for it, I'll check what xv does, see if any other
> programs are doing the same, and decide whether it is worth some
> backward-compatibility hack to keep them working.


It's been a further 13 years with no action, so closing this issue.

-Steve

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