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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:31:50 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Chuck Bacon <crtb@cape.com>
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Subject: Re: BSD_10_2011.pdf - typical problem
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:16:04 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Bacon wrote:
> I often receive PDFs which die with gv.  I have just downloaded the 
> current copy of BSD_10_2011.pdf, with stats:
> MD5 (BSD_10_2011.pdf) = 69c8b0be7c59870eb41e09b46fa568ba
> -just so's you know.
> This one causes gv to respond with:
> Error: /syntaxerror in readxrefGNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable 
> error, exit code .. etc.
> Some PDFs come through OK, but about half fail, often with different 
> errors.  I'm running:
> FreeBSD tomato.local 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 
> 27 18:45:57 UTC 
> 2011  root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> 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 
> :-)
> So I need help sometimes :-(
>     Many thanks - Chuck Bacon <crtb@cape.com>

Yes, I sometimes see this behaviour with gv too.
As I do not want to use heavyweight bloatware like
that "Acrobat" reader, I use the xpdf program for
the PDF files that don't work with gv. Maybe you
try this program?

And I also use xpdf -fullscreen for presentaqtions. :-)


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...