From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 24 21:32:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14058 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 21:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (root@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14046 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 21:32:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA21509 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 23:32:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 23:32:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon X-Sender: cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems viewing pages 4 and 9 on Newsletter Issue 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 24 May 1998, Chris Dillon wrote: > 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? Quick update here.. i went from xpdf 0.7 to 0.7a, and the problem with the Signal 8 while viewing those pages disappeared. However, the printing problem still occurs. -- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@inter-linc.net --- cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message