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From: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Ghostview error
Date: 22 Aug 1994 17:44:09 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
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In article <33ahmm$17l@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
Ming Y Haung <myhst1+@pitt.edu> wrote:
>
>I download ghostview from freebsd.cdrom.com and compiled without
>problem, but whenver I run it, I got the following error:
>
>gs: Malformed ghostview color property
>Error: postscript interpreter failed in main window
>
>However if I use gs direclty, it works fine.
>
>Does anyone know what the problem is?

You need to apply these patches to ghostscript2.6.1
(from prep.ai.mit.edu /pub/gnu):

	ghostscript-2.6.1.fix-01.gz
	ghostscript-2.6.1.fix-02.gz
	ghostscript-2.6.1.fix-03.gz
	ghostscript-2.6.1.fix-04.gz

  -Dan