From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 6 1:51:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BD137B417; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:51:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g357G9j09298; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:16:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:16:08 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Gilles Kirouac , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Handbook unreadable in pdf format Message-ID: <20020405081608.O30474@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <3CABE2A9.1FC65ACB@riq.qc.ca> <200204041656.g34GumhB070332@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xexMVKTdXPhpRiVT" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200204041656.g34GumhB070332@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:56:48AM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --xexMVKTdXPhpRiVT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:56:48AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Gilles Kirouac wrote: > > The latest edition of the FreeBSD Handbook of 02/04/02=20 > > is unreadable with my Acrobat Reader 4.05C for Win-32. > > I get an error at every page I attempt to display. > >=20 > > This is file book.pdf.zip 913497 bytes (1953457 bytes after unzipping)= =20 > > from=20 > >=20 > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ >=20 > Hmmm. Confirmed...I'm seeing similar problems (acroread4 under Linux > emulation, native gv/ghostscript), although book.txt.zip seems intact. > The copy on ftp8 seems similarly mangled. >=20 > I know the original sources are intact, since I just recently=20 > (yesterday) did some builds of the doc set for 5.0-DP1 testing. >=20 > Could be something in the automated build scripts? I've got as far as determining that ps2pdf is blowing up when it converts the Handbook to PDF -- and it's still too big to use pdftex directly. I haven't had a chance to do more than a cursory inspection at the moment, I'll try to look at this in more detail over the weekend. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --xexMVKTdXPhpRiVT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjytTzcACgkQk6gHZCw343X7LQCeJD4SQyRwjGPOd4EOzPtXf0lb gQ4AoI0POsUQG0xOj/bILjcMxkKAMcuQ =FTxt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xexMVKTdXPhpRiVT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message