text in idraw gives /rangecheck errors in recent versions of ghostscript

[John Heidemann]

I've had trouble with old idraw files giving the following error
message in recent versions of ghostscript on Redhat Linux.

I haven't been able to find any related bug reports in the ghostscript
bug list.

Specificially, the attached idraw file (created with idraw 1.0.6 with the
text string "bar" in it), the gv the file using ghostscript-6.52-9.4 on
Redhat 7.3, it gives the following error message:

gs ~/NOTES/200208/idraw_failing_in_ghostscript_020808.idraw 
GNU Ghostscript 6.52 (2001-10-20)
Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from 
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2418892 1059509 1622424 328620 0 
done.
Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from 
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2757092 1364390 1642520 336084 0 
done.
Error: /rangecheck in --get--
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   descender   0   
--nostringval--   1
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1035/1476(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:90/200(L)--   
--dict:36/51(L)--   --dict:1/17(L)--   --dict:5/17(L)--   --dict:1/3(L)--   
--dict:13/14(ro)(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 10606
GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Position 10438 is the first character of the "End" just after
the "] Text" line in the file.

(FYI, idraw's native file format is postscript with idraw-specific comments.

This problem didn't happen on Redhat Linux 7.2, but it persists even
if I downgrade ghostview in RH 7.3 to the 7.2 version
(ghostscript-6.51-12).  (Suggesting perhaps it's a library problem,
rather than a problem directly in ghostscript.)  The problem persists
in rehdat 8.0 beta with ghostscript-7.05-20.  (I haven't been able to
test gs-7.30.)

The idraw folks seemt to think this is a ghostscript bug since the
idraw files that used to work no longer do.

Is it possible this is a ghostscript bug?  Or is it that idraw always
generated bad postscript, but that ghostview just got more
conservative lately?

   -John Heidemann