[CentOS] imagemagick convert/display eps file no decode delegate

Fri Apr 27 20:35:14 UTC 2012
Tony Schreiner <anthony.schreiner at bc.edu>

I am finding on all my CentOS 5.8 systems (all fully updated but a variety of package mixes) that the display or convert commands from ImageMagick are unable to handle eps files. I get  error output as follows, curious if anyone else sees this

$ convert rna.eps rna.epi
convert rna.eps rna.epi
Error: /undefinedfilename in (72x72)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1154/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Error: /undefinedfilename in (72x72)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1154/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
convert: no decode delegate for this image format `rna.eps'.
convert: Postscript delegate failed `rna.eps'.
convert: missing an image filename `rna.epi'.

ImageMagick 5.2.8.0-12.el5
ghostcript-8.0-14.el5

the equivalent GraphicsMagick command
gm convert

does work

This is a recent development, but I can't say how recent

Tony Schreiner