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Title:
  gs renders images as black boxes when generating PDF files

Status in GS-GPL  -  GPL Ghostscript:
  Invalid
Status in “acroread” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “ghostscript” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I just noticed that for several days my cupspdf printer driver
  (generating PDF files in the home directory as a special printer)
  generated broken PDF files when printing from firefox to cupspdf.

  Debugging and breaking it down into its processing steps showed that
  firefox itself generates  a PDF files and sends it to the cupspdf
  printer, which then runs something like (filenames replaced for
  debugging tests)

  pdftops -level2 -origpagesizes x.pdf y.ps

  /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops 619 hadmut test 1 finishings=3 < y.ps >
  z.ps

  
  /usr/bin/gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=a.pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f z.ps

  
  The first and the second step work, the generated postscript file (y.ps in this example) is correct (i.e. ghostview shows it correctly, I did not check it's internals). 

  But then gs generates a broken pdf.

  Just try a

  /usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
  -sOutputFile=a.pdf -f z.ps

  with the attached z.ps  as an example. I'll attach both z.ps and
  a.pdf.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: ghostscript 9.01~dfsg-1ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jul 27 17:13:18 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
  Lpstat:
   device for Deskjet-F2100-series: hp:/usb/Deskjet_F2100_series?serial=CN7CK4T2NP04TK
   device for HP-LaserJet-1300: socket://192.168.160.1:9100
   device for hp-LaserJet-1320-series: hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_1320_series?serial=00CNM1G08790
   device for Laser: ///dev/null
   device for PDF: cups-pdf:/
  MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA78G-DS3H
  Papersize: a4
  PpdFiles:
   PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
   HP-LaserJet-1300: HP LaserJet 1300 Series Postscript (recommended)
   hp-LaserJet-1320-series: HP LaserJet 1320 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)
   Deskjet-F2100-series: HP Deskjet f2100 Series hpijs, 3.10.6
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=/dev/mapper/raid2-ubuntu64 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: ghostscript
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-17 (70 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 04/03/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: F2
  dmi.board.name: GA-MA78G-DS3H
  dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.board.version: x.x
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd04/03/2008:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA78G-DS3H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA78G-DS3H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: GA-MA78G-DS3H
  dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

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