Package: graphviz Version: 2.16.1-2 Severity: important
The PostScript output in 'dot' and 'neato' programs of Graphviz package is broken in most cases. Below I illustrate this bugreport with two examples using 'neato'. All mentioned input/output files are available in a sigle ZIP archive at: ftp://weird.da.ru/bugs/neato_ps_bug.zip First, let's consider a small input 1a.dot and supply it to neato as dot -v -T ps -O 1a.dot I provide the resulting file under the name 1a.ps and the log produced by neato under the name 1a.log. The file 1a.ps is broken that can be easily seen, comparing its content to the correct PDF file 1a.pdf, produced by the same command with "-T pdf" instead of "-T ps". The source of troubles in this example seems to be the explicitly specified fontname in 1a.dot: fontname="freefont/FreeSans" despite that the log 1a.log does not indicate any apparent problems with the specified font. If I remove this specification (see 1b.dot) then the neato's output (1b.ps) is correct. Unfortunately, the fontname is not always an issue. In the second example (2.dot) I don't use any fontname= but the resulting file (2.ps) does not contain any image at all, despite its rather large size and no apparent errors in the log file (2.log). Again, if the output format is switched to PDF, neato produces a correct file (2.pdf). Actually, PDF (or PNG) output format perfectly works with fontname= specification as the one mentioned above. But in most cases I have no luck with PostScript format, the resulting .ps files are broken. Best Regards, Max -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages graphviz depends on: ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgd2-xpm 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-1 GD Graphics Library version 2 ii libgraphviz4 2.16.1-2 rich set of graph drawing tools ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library graphviz recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
