From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 10: 6:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA04D37B417 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10417; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:06:06 -0700 Message-ID: <3CCECEFA.3070507@owt.com> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:06:02 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Per olof Ljungmark Cc: Nathan KInkade , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pdf's in ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/handbook/ References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020430092207.0223eb10@mail.inter-sonic.com> <20020430063617.395d301a.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> <200204301457.g3UEv5T78397@dns2.s.bonet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > On Tuesday 30 April 2002 15.36, Nathan KInkade wrote: > >>On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:23:53 +0200 >> >>Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> >>>I'm unable to open any of the handbook pdf's. Am I missing something >>>here? I have Acrobat version 4. >>> >>>Thanks, >>> >>are you getting an error of some sort when you try to open a pdf? >>what do you get if you type the command: >>$ which acroread4 >>are you trying to launch the pdf's from a browswer? if so then it may be a >>config issue in the browser. if you are using netscape, for example, goto >>Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Appllications and look for "Portable Document >>Format" make sure the entry reads something like "/usr/local/bin/acroread4 >>"%s". >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > When trying to open from AR3(Linux)-FBSD I get: > "There was an error processing a page. > There was a problem reading this document (109)." > > Under AR4-WinNT4 same but no error text. > > Solved the problem by distilling the *ps file but still can't open the pdf's > at freebsd.org. > From what I have read on freebsd-docs, the machine that creates then was being updated to the latest ghostscript-gnu, which will fix the *.pdf generation. The updated *.pdf's may not be there yet. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message