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Since Evince doesn't work with *.eps on 13.04 (see bellow), is there any other app to quickly open (not edit) a *.eps file?

petr@sova:~$ evince histogram_default.eps 
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(evince:12208): EvinceDocument-CRITICAL **: ev_document_misc_pixbuf_from_surface: assertion `surface' failed

(evince:12208): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '13 at 17:47

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Try using ghostscript from the command line. This has worked for me. It may need to be installed from the repositories if not present on your system. sudo apt-get install ghostscript or the equivalent.

answered May 02 '13 at 17:47

belacqua

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Thanks, that did it! I actually had it installed, so I just added a GUI around it as well: `gv`. – mreq May 02 '13 at 17:53
Ah, good. Was trying to remember the name of 'gv' as I wrote that -- did you already have 'gv' as an existing executable? – belacqua May 02 '13 at 17:56
No, had `ghostscript` only. Had to install `gv`. – mreq May 02 '13 at 18:00

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '13 at 11:26

Actually, this is a bug of Ghostscript.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1159931 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693843

It has a problem dealing with the decimal separator "," in some locales. To workaround you can start evince like this:

LANG=en_US evince my_file.ps

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