Bug 489670

trying to format/print man pages I noticed the following problem:


harald > rpm -qf /usr/bin/pstopdf
texlive-context-2007-219.3

harald > zcat /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz  | groff -Tps -man  > man.ps

harald > pstopdf man.ps
PsToPdf | converting ps (ps) into pdf
PsToPdf | conversion method 2
PsToPdf | converting man.ps bounded
Error: /configurationerror in --setpagedevice--
Additional information: [/PageSize [0 0]]
Operand stack:
   --dict:1/1(L)--
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1921   1   3   %oparray_pop   1920   1   3   %oparray_pop   1904   1   3   %oparray_pop   1787   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   1889   1   4   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --dict:8/10(L)--   --nostringval--   5   %dict_continue
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1170/3371(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:71/200(L)--   --dict:59/120(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
PsToPdf | job aborted due to some error: Broken pipe


pstopdf work for at least one minimal "hello-world.ps" example.

ps2pdf from ghostscript works fine with the above man.ps.

pstopdf from TeXlive-2008 works too. (installed from DVD, not suse buildservice)