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 r...@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 <c...@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, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"