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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:16:08 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Gilles Kirouac <gkirouac@riq.qc.ca>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Handbook unreadable in pdf format
Message-ID:  <20020405081608.O30474@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204041656.g34GumhB070332@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:56:48AM -0800
References:  <3CABE2A9.1FC65ACB@riq.qc.ca> <200204041656.g34GumhB070332@intruder.bmah.org>

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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
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