[magick-users] Strange error i cannot seem to solve...

[Mike van Hoof]

Glenn Linderman schreef:
> On approximately 8/15/2006 2:35 AM, came the following characters from 
> the keyboard of Mike van Hoof:
>> Glenn Linderman schreef:
>>> On approximately 8/15/2006 1:02 AM, came the following characters 
>>> from the keyboard of Mike van Hoof:
>>>> Mike van Hoof schreef:
>>>>> Glenn Linderman schreef:
>>>>>> On approximately 8/14/2006 5:48 AM, came the following characters 
>>>>>> from the keyboard of Mike van Hoof:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am trying to convert a PDF to a jpg image with the following 
>>>>>>> command:
>>>>>>> *convert item137796_1.pdf test.jpg*
>>>>>>> On the most PDF's this is working, but now I get:
>>>>>>> *convert: Postscript delegate failed `item137796_1.pdf'.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The pdf is a valid pdf which I can open in adobe.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My versions are:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Linux 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 
>>>>>>> GNU/Linux (Fedora Core 4)
>>>>>>> Version: ImageMagick 6.2.0 03/17/05 Q16 
>>>>>>> http://www.imagemagick.org (installed by yum)
>>>>>>> ghostscript 7.07-25 (thought it maybe had to do something with 
>>>>>>> this...)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So does anyone knows how I can solve this?
>>>>>> Install GhostScript, then reinstall ImageMagick.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I did this, now i do not get an error anymore, bet the jpg that is 
>>>>> created contains errors and cannot be displayed
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
>>>> Well...  i just installed the latest GhostScript GPL version 8.45 
>>>> and i stopped giving me errors now...
>>>> but the created jpg cannot be viewed...
>>>>
>>>> any idea's
>>> Some... but not as certain of a cure as last time :(
>>>
>>> Try several jpg viewers... if they all cannot display the created 
>>> jpgs, it would seem more like a creation problem than a display 
>>> problem... or even a problem with display.  I assume your first 
>>> tried jpg viewer was the ImageMagick display utility.
>>>
>>> Perform a conversion on a typical or similar .pdf file that you are 
>>> willing to make public.  Put both the .pdf, and the .jpg on a web 
>>> site and post links to them in this list.  The developers seem to be 
>>> pretty responsive about corruption, or incompatibilities of their 
>>> file formats.
>>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I tracked down the problem to be a ghostscript problem... when i run 
>> the convert command as root it works fine... but as apache (or any 
>> other user) it gives me this error:
>>
>> command: gs -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE 
>> -sOutputFile="item137796_1.pdf.jpg" -sDEVICE=jpeg -f"item137796_1.pdf"
>>
>> Error: /undefinedfilename in (item137796_1.pdf)
>> Operand stack:
>>
>> Execution stack:
>>  %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
>> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
>> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
>> Dictionary stack:
>>  --dict:1120/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
>> Current allocation mode is local
>> Last OS error: 2
>> GPL Ghostscript 8.54: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>
>> And as i said before... as the root user the command works fine...
>>
>> Also posted this on the gs mailinglist, but not very responsive over 
>> there
> Well, not having used Unix for some years now (except for limited use 
> on my web host), and never having used Linux, I should probably shut 
> up... but instead I will babble on and suggest that perhaps it is a 
> permissions problem of some sort... possibly on a temporary directory 
> configured for use by ghostscript, but which is secured for root only 
> access?
>
Yeah that is the problem, and i do not know how i can find that out.
Already gave all the ghostscript files and font files read and execute 
rights, but think i am going to try to fedora mailinglist then...

Thanks for your help

Mike

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