On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote:
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 [email protected]:/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 <[email protected]>
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?
Updating ghostscript 7.07 to either 8 or 9 is also worth a try.
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