[5376] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xdvi bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 9 15:02:30 1995
To: pjlin@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 1995 14:43:09 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 15:01:16 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I've encountered a repeatable bug in the SIPB versio of xdvi. The
> program halts while loading ps images, (this is after the program
> successfully displayed many pages with ps figures. The computer
> freezes and my login killed after a few seconds.
This sounds like an X server bug. Where available, xdvi uses the
Display Postscript X server extension to display Postscript images; it
sounds like the Sun X server is crashing when it sees your Postscript
file.
I'm not sure what the best thing to do about this is. We can
recompile xdvi for the Suns to use ghostscript for PS images; this
will produce lower-quality output but won't crash the server. If this
bug only happens with a small fraction of postscript images, I'm not
sure we want to do that. You can use the Athena xdvi, which won't
display postscript images, while you're on Suns, or you could use
dvips -ofilename.ps to generate a postscript file, and view it with
ghostview (from the gnu locker).
