Debian bug report logs - #1112, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1112: a2gs output unusable by gs but usable by ghostview
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From: edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
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Package: a2gs
Version: 1.0-1
Package: gs_x
Version: 2.6.1pl4
Package: gsfonts
Version: 2.6.1

I am confused here. I use a2gs to create a postscript file of an ascii text
file that I want to print. This postscript file can be viewed by ghostview
just fine.

But neither a HP 4ML (a genuine postscript printer) nor the following gs
script can use it. Simply nothing happens (but an empty x11 window) when
invoked by the script:

#!/bin/sh
gs -dNOBIND -sDEVICE=x11 -r80  -dSAFER -- $1

and all it creates is:

Initializing... done.
Ghostscript 2.6.1 (5/28/93)
Copyright (C) 1990-1993 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
  All rights reserved.
Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Loading Courier font from /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ncrr.gsf... 239192 232152 0 done.

The font file is there. Again, ghostview uses it correctly. Similarly,
nothing happens when I change the 'gs' device to 'ljet4'.

The script works fine on a file created by groff from a man page. What am I
missing?

Thanks for any help,

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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca
Subject: Bug#1112: Acknowledgement (was: a2gs output unusable by gs but usable by ghostview)
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Subject: Bug#1112: a2gs output unusable by gs but usable by ghostview
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From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
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        edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca

Just on a hunch, look and see if the word "showpage" appears in the PostScript
emitted by a2gs, close to the end. If it doesn't, that's the problem.
Mail the PostScript to me (privately!) and I'll look it over.

	Bruce
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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Subject: Bug#1112: Info received (was Bug#1112: a2gs output unusable by gs but usable by ghostview)
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