gs 2.5 dislikes dvips' PostScript

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From: Rainer Klute
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:34

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Ghostscript 2.5's X11 driver crashes on PostScript generated by dvips. With
other drivers (well, at least with the gif8 driver) there are no problems.

klute@tommy: dvips bug.dvi
This is dvips, version 5.4 (C) 1986-90 Radical Eye Software
' TeX output 1992.06.01:1728' -> bug.ps
<tex.pro>. [2] 
klute@tommy: gs bug.ps 
Initializing... done.
X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  70 (X_PolyFillRectangle)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x5800002
  Serial number of failed request:  15
  Current serial number in output stream:  18

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