Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 07:22:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephan Eisvogel <eisvogel@hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/37791: Screenshots don't show up on paper when printing handbook (book.ps) Message-ID: <200205061422.g46EMADM083588@nwww.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 37791
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Screenshots don't show up on paper when printing handbook (book.ps)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon May 06 07:30:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Stephan Eisvogel
>Release: 4.5-STABLE
>Organization:
HAWO Network
>Environment:
Brother HL-1650 w/ 136MB RAM, duplex mode
>Description:
I tried printing the FreeBSD Handbook, but the screenshots don't show up on paper. The file is book.ps.gz, 2531465 bytes, from Apr 5 04:01.
E.g. the screenshot on page "18" (34 of 601) is completely missing. I am certain this is not a "page protection" or similar problem, the laser printer has 136 MB of RAM. Similarly the PDF document cannot be opened from acroread 4.05-5 (white pages and wrong page count by factor of 10).
The problem pages appear to be displayed correctly for a split second but then are rendered a second time but without the screenshots.
>How-To-Repeat:
I tried to print from a Debian (testing) and Windows machine.
Printing using gv 3.5.8-26 and ghostview 1.5-27: no screenshots
Printing using xpp 1.0-3.1: no screenshotsPrinting using printer's internal PS capabilities: no screenshots
Opening book.pdf using acroread: fails to load
Opening book.pdf using Windows: Acrobat 5 will not load document ("There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (109)."
Converting book.ps to book.pdf using Distiller: still no screenshots
>Fix:
Recreate handbook, use newer/other/better PS/PDF converters, maybe use PDF 1.3 as output format.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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