Re: bzip2 and Ghostview/Ghostscript?

[Russell Lang]

J Y D,

You've definitely found a bug in GSview.  GSview needed to pass
the name of the uncompressed file to the ghostscript security code,
and wasn't passing the correct file name.
The workarounds are to either uncompress the file outside GSview,
or to disable "Options | Safer".  Do the latter at your own risk.

This bug will be fixed in the next release of GSview.
If you can recompile GSview yourself, send me email and I will
give you the details of the changes.

Russell

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> >> Hi!
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> >> As I remeber a while ago, 6-7 months ago, I was able to open bzip2-ed
PS
> >> or PDFs in GhostView but after upgrading to the newsest version (4.3
> >> 2002-04-30) this does not work.
> >>
> >> Anyone knows if this has been removed from the program or ?
> >
> > It still works in GSview 4.3 on Windows.
> > Are you sure the file has been compressed with bzip2?
> > What platform are you using?
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> Dear Russell Lang,
>
> Thanks so very much fo your response. I am on WinXP Pro and I use the
bzip2
> for Win32 that I have downloaded from the official webpage. To make sure,
I
> compressed again one PS and one PDF file which opened both uncompressed in
> Ghostview.
>
> I once used the bzip2.exe and once my Windows Commander plugin and to my
> surprise, the PS file opened with no problem no matter the compression I
used
> (1 and 9) by either of the ways but PDF file did not open at all (I mean
> *.pdf.bz2).
>
> So, I guess in all my previous attempts I had been trying to open a
> compressed PDF file (and not compressed PS files) because as I see it now,
> compressed PS files open with no problem whatsoever.
>
> Thanks again for letting me to rexamine the situation.
>
> Good luck with your works and best of wishes,
> J Y D