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[Roy Stogner <1318211@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Creating any dia file, then trying to convert it to embedded postscript
with "dia -t eps-builtin -e bug.eps bug.dia" (dia 0.97.2), produces a
result that is unreadable by evince, ghostscript, or epstopdf
(ghostscript 9.10).

I suspect this is a bug in ghostscript, since I can use dia 0.97 on
another (ScientificLinux 6) system to create eps files which work on
that system but fail on Ubuntu 14.04, and I can take the eps files which
cannot successfully be read on Ubuntu 14.04 and successfully read them
on SL6 (ghostscript 8.70).  It may be that dia is producing invalid
postscript but earlier ghostscript versions are being less strict about
it.

The error from ghostscript is the only one which looks informative:

$ ghostscript bug.eps 
GPL Ghostscript 9.10 (2013-08-30)
Copyright (C) 2013 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021003l.pfb... 3896292 2357397 4095992 2612040 2 done.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021023l.pfb... 4180076 2735706 4129304 2741763 2 done.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Medi font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021004l.pfb... 4700628 3200736 4243352 2891867 2 done.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021024l.pfb... 5197780 3642322 4438136 3055017 2 done.
Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.10/Resource/Font/AvantGarde-Gothic.
Can't find (or can't open) font file AvantGarde-Gothic.
Querying operating system for font files...
Error: /typecheck in /findfont
Operand stack:
   AvantGarde-Gothic-latin1   AvantGarde-Gothic
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1916   1   3   %oparray_pop   1915   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   1899   1   3   %oparray_pop   1787   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   1868   2   3   %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1171/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:113/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 4276
GPL Ghostscript 9.10: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: dia 0.97.2-15ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat May 10 11:39:41 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-09 (547 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
SourcePackage: dia
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-30 (9 days ago)

** Affects: ghostscript (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug third-party-packages trusty

** Package changed: dia (Ubuntu) => ghostscript (Ubuntu)

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  dia -t eps-builtin produces unreadable output

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