From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 08:56:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06034 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05884 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id KAA12610; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:55:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA14484; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:46:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Albrecht Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:46:48 -0500 (CDT) To: "J. Han" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: acroread displays jumbled pages In-Reply-To: <199806120727.AAA29491@shell9.ba.best.com> References: <199806120727.AAA29491@shell9.ba.best.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13697.19678.589689.520219@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J. Han writes: > Acrobat reader has been working fine on my 2.2.6 until a few days ago, > but now it can't display any PDF files correctly. They are all > displayed with texts in diffent colors, overlapped, etc when opened. > Trying to reopen, to move to another page, etc leave blank pages, > jumbled pages or some random portion of *correctly* displayed pages > and error messages. (Error messages are something like: "SEGV > caught", "Rasterizer port failed".) > > I haven't changed anything on my system other than adding a few ports > in the recent past. I backed out those recently installed ports and > reinstalled Acrobat port (acroread-3.01) but it didn't help. FWIW > xpdf works OK. linux_lib-2.4 was never changed ever since it was > installed last year. > > I think I am missing something very obvious? Any clue welcome. Did you switch your screen settings? Acroread doesn't seem to work well with Xfree86 and 24 bit color displays. Try switching to 16 bit or 32 bit color and see if that helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message