Did you already eliminate the trivial cases: - Insufficient space in device (df) - Insufficient inodes in device (df -i)
The processes of printing to pdf and to ps might be using different partitions for their temporary files, so if one is not full (say /tmp) and the other one is full (say /home/bgbg/temp) then this might explain your observation. --- Omer On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Boris Gorelik wrote: > > Hello, list > when trying to print web pages to PDF files (on Konqueror 3.3.2, mandriva 2005 > LE), sometimes I recive message like this: > "A print error occurred. Error message received from system: > Abnormal process termination (gs -q -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$out{/home/bgbg/temp/print.pdf} -sPAPERSIZE=a4 > -c .setpdfwrite -f '/tmp/kde-bgbg/kdeprint_3YFXrUQk' )." > When typing the command on the command line, I get the following: > "ESP Ghostscript 815.01: **** Could not open the file {/home/bgbg/print.pdf} . > **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting." > > Googling for "Could not open the file" "Unable to open the initial device, > quitting." gave nothing useful.The stange thing is that the process is > succesful with some pages (see partial list below). > Does anyone have any idea? > PS. printing to a postscript file works fine --- Omer My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]