Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:06:02 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: Nathan KInkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pdf's in ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/handbook/ Message-ID: <3CCECEFA.3070507@owt.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020430092207.0223eb10@mail.inter-sonic.com> <20020430063617.395d301a.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> <200204301457.g3UEv5T78397@dns2.s.bonet.se>
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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 <peo@intersonic.se> 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
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