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ghostscript tiffg3 floating point error
- To: flexfax@sgi.com
 
- Subject: flexfax: ghostscript tiffg3 floating point error
 
- From: "Russell P. Sutherland" <russ@quist.on.ca>
 
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:59:26 -0400
 
I have experienced a floating point error that occurs when my PS code
attempts to render a Times-Roman outline font.
Here are the details:
%uname -a
Linux joefox.quist.on.ca 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 i686 unknown
(Redhat 5.2)
%gs -v
GNU Ghostscript 4.03 (1998-5-1)
Copyright (C) 1996 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
% gs -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -sOutputFile=qwe.fax mmcover.ps
GNU Ghostscript 4.03 (1998-5-1)
Copyright (C) 1996 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Medi font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021004l.pfb... 1931572 581827 1320168 32145 0 done.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 1962376 589791 1340252 39183 0 done.
Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 2002544 630805 1360336 57084 0 done.
Floating point exception (core dumped)
%               
The PS code is attached which  was generated from a MacWrite application.
The x11 device renders without error.
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mmcover.ps