From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 24 22:02:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17176 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:02:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17043 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00591; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:46:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805250346.WAA00591@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Problems viewing pages 4 and 9 on Newsletter Issue 2 In-Reply-To: from Chris Dillon at "May 24, 98 09:50:45 pm" To: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us (Chris Dillon) Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 22:46:25 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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