From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 25 22:32:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494A8106566B for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:32:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crtb@cape.com) Received: from mrelay1.cape.com (mrelay3.cape.com [216.237.97.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21ABE8FC13 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tomato (209-213-65-25.meganet.net [209.213.65.25]) by mrelay1.cape.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E252333ECB; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:16:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:16:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Bacon X-X-Sender: crtb@tomato.local To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Chuck Bacon Subject: BSD_10_2011.pdf - typical problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:32:48 -0000 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