Issued:
2012-02-20
Updated:
2012-02-20

RHBA-2012:0284 - ghostscript bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

ghostscript bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated ghostscript packages that fix several bugs and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The Ghostscript suite provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language), and an interpreter for PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common bitmapped formats like those understood by most printers and displays. This enables users to display PostScript files and print them on non-PostScript printers.

These updated ghostscript packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

  • Previously, using the ps2pdf utility to convert a PostScript file to the PDF format caused the resulting document to be created with non-working hyperlinks. This update applies an upstream patch that resolves this issue, and ps2pdf now creates PDF files with correct hyperlinks. (BZ#675307)

  • Prior to this update, certain input files containing CID Type2 fonts were rendered with incorrect character spacing. This update modifies the code so that all input files with CID Type2 fonts are rendered correctly. (BZ#688996)

  • Prior to this update, the page orientation was incorrect when pages in landscape orientation were converted to the PXL raster format. This update matches landscape page sizes as well as portrait page sizes, and sets the orientation parameter correctly when a match is found. (BZ#692165)

In addition, these updated ghostscript packages provide the following enhancement:

  • Improved support for the PDF/A format has been back-ported from upstream. (BZ#710074)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated ghostscript packages, which resolve these issues and add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.s390x.rpm
  • ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5.s390x.rpm
  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.ia64.rpm
  • ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5.s390.rpm
  • ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5.ia64.rpm
  • ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.ppc.rpm
  • ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5.ia64.rpm
  • ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.src.rpm
  • ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5.s390x.rpm
  • ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5.i386.rpm
  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.i386.rpm
  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5.s390.rpm
  • ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5.ppc.rpm
  • ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5.ppc.rpm
  • ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5.i386.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information