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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 11:23:49 -0400
From:      Bill Crosbie <crosbie@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PS version question
Message-ID:  <01I58K7BVM4I003V7M@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU>

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At 02:19 PM 5/25/96 -0500, John Fieber wrote:
>On Fri, 24 May 1996, Bill Crosbie wrote:
>
>> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/handbook.ps
>> 
>> When I ran it through Acrobat Distiller 2.1,  I received the message:
>> =============================
>> Distilling: handbook.ps
>> Source:t:\common\e-reserv\in-eps\handbook.ps
>> Desitination:t:\common\e-reserv\out-pdf\handbook.pdf
>> Start Time: Friday, May 24, 1996 at 6:08AM (time set wrong :)
>> %%[Error: invalidfileaccess; Offending Command: definefont]%%
>> 
>> Stack:
>> /Font
>> -dict-
>> -dict-
>
>I checked and the file was a long outdated version that must have
>come from an old backup.  I've put a new version there new.  Try
>it out.  If it still doesn't work, y suspicion is that it may be
>getting tripped up by bitmap fonts that are getting thrown in by
>dvips. 
>

I'm still getting the same error.  Pity.  Would be handy to have a pdf
version of the document around.  Maybe I'll just do a quick and dirty
version of the ascii text with a full text catalog of the contents.  That
would be a start.

Bill
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