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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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