evince 3.26.0-1 can't open/display .eps files

[Scott T. Marshall]

On 1/3/2021 12:26 PM, Scott T. Marshall wrote:
> Hello,
> I use evince to view .eps and .ps files (usually plots of scientific 
> data). After my recent cygwin update, evince no longer is able to open 
> .eps or .ps files. I get the following error.
>
>  **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
> fatal internal error -100
>
> From a web search in Linux forums, this may be an issue with 
> libspectre that has been fixed in a recent version, but is not yet 
> available in cygwin. evince can open pdf files, so it is just eps and 
> ps files that give the error. gs can open the eps files.
>
> Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
> Cheers,
> -Scott
The recent Cygwin distribution update to libspectre 0.2.9-1 has fixed 
this issue.
Thanks!
-Scott