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From: John D [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:40 PM
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Subject: mxe-octave: ghostscript 9.07, why not 9.10
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:09:19 +0200
From: sergey plotnikov <address@hidden>
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Subject: mxe-octave: ghostscript 9.07, why not 9.10
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Hi all,
I've cross-built recent development version of Octave for Windows using
MXE-Octave (also, one of the recent csets) and after some testing get into a
trouble which I'm not sure caused by Octave itself. Sometimes when trying to
print a figure to pdf (print('-dpdf',..)) Octave may hang on waiting beforegs.exe completed writing into a pdf-file. But as a matter of fact gs.exe
doesn't want to finish and continues writing into pdf inflating its size
gradually approaching infinity (last time I forgot to kill gs.exe process my
one-page pdf reached 600Gb).
This bug looks quite similar to GS bug #693591
[http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693591] which was fixed in
gs9.10. And according to my recent testing, use of separately installed
gs9.10 instead of default Octave gs.exe helps.
So my questions is rather easy, do you by any chance plan to switch GS
version in MXE-Octave from 9.07 to 9.10? If not, it might worth to apply a
patch fixing this bug in GS source
[http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=dfd7fc9fe152245256e43
7141dd7780c8313c971].
Sorry, if I overlooked existing discussion on this topic.
Sergey
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Why not 9.14 ?
Patch works for me under native mingw and cross compiled on my fedora
machine
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It of course doesn't fix the issues with octave pdfwrite tho