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Date:      Sun, 24 May 1998 22:46:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us (Chris Dillon)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems viewing pages 4 and 9 on Newsletter Issue 2
Message-ID:  <199805250346.WAA00591@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980524213931.21357A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> from Chris Dillon at "May 24, 98 09:50:45 pm"

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Chris Dillon said:
> Has anyone had a problem printing/viewing pages 4 and 9 of the new
> newsletter?  My printer consistently chokes at the exact same spot on
> those pages and lights up like a christmas tree (saved to ps by xpdf 0.7,
> and from ps to HP 870Cse by Ghostscript 5.10) and xpdf coredumps on a
> Signal 8 (Floating Exception) when I try to view those two pages. 
> 
> Funny how xpdf doesn't complain while saving to postscript, nor does
> Ghostscript complain when converting from ps to native printer format. 
> I've re-downloaded issue2.pdf from ftp.freebsd.org and got the exact same
> results (diff showed no difference). Is it possible the version on
> ftp.freebsd.org is corrupted?
> 
I just downloaded the version on ftp.freebsd.org, and viewed it with
the Linux version of Acroread, and succesfully printed it (through
lpr on another FreeBSD box, with a gs5.10 interpreter "wired" into
it), onto a HP890C.  Probably a bug in xpdf, or a bug in the FP
handling in it.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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