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Date:      Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:21:32 +0100
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
To:        Chuck Bacon <crtb@cape.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD_10_2011.pdf - typical problem
Message-ID:  <20111026042132.GB43990@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110251803500.1700@tomato.local>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110251803500.1700@tomato.local>

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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 06:16:04PM -0400, Chuck Bacon wrote:
>
> I often receive PDFs which die with gv.  I have just downloaded the=20
> current copy of BSD_10_2011.pdf, with stats:
> MD5 (BSD_10_2011.pdf) =3D 69c8b0be7c59870eb41e09b46fa568ba
> -just so's you know.
> This one causes gv to respond with:
> Error: /syntaxerror in readxrefGNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable=20
> error, exit code .. etc.
> Some PDFs come through OK, but about half fail, often with different=20
> errors.  I'm running:
> FreeBSD tomato.local 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep=20
> 27 18:45:57 UTC=20
> 2011  root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC=20
> amd64
> on an ASUS MB and AMD64 4x CPU.  Any ideas?
> As a retired sysadmin from the 1950s, I'm over my head but can't let go=
=20
> :-)
> So I need help sometimes :-(
>    Many thanks - Chuck Bacon <crtb@cape.com>

Not sure why you're using gv. Try graphics/xpdf.

Use xpdf to view the pdf and pdftops to convert it to postscript for
printing.


Regards,

--=20

 Frank

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