I have on Windows Ghostscript 8.54 and ghostview 4.8. They came with the lyx 1.4.3-5 bundle.
"Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Miki Dovrat wrote: > >> After some playing around trying to answer Paul's and Georg's questions, >> I >> came up with these conclusions: >> >> My ghostview prints everything correctly - the eps's by themselves, the >> lyx ps and pdf (dvipdfm and pdftex) outputs. > > That either means that the eps generated by origin is correct, or that > ghostscript is tolerant enough to understand it. > >> Acrobat Reader (both versions 7.0.9 and 8) fail to print the figures >> correctly. >> >> Does Adobe not understand lyx pdf's the way ghostview does? I don't know >> who to blame, Adobe or the lyx conversions of eps to pdf, but I suspect >> the latter. >> >> It is a problem since the most wide-spread pdf viewer on windows is >> Acrobat, and if I give the document to someone I would like for them to >> be >> able to print it correctly. >> >> How can we be sure? > > We had a similar problem here some years ago. Certain lines of simple > figures (made with xfig) would not show up in the pdf with acroread, but > where fine in the ps file. > We never found out whether that was a problem of ghostscript producing > invalid pdf, or a problem of acroread not understanding the valid pdf that > ghostscript produced. The solution was to upgrade ghostscript (IIRC the > problematic version was 5.x or maybe 6.x). > > I suspect that in your case you see something similar. Either the > conversion > of the figure from eps to pdf (if you use pdflatex), or the conversion of > the whole document from ps to pdf (if you use latex) produces something > acroread can not understand. What version of ghostscript do you use? If it > is older, does an upgrade help? > > > Georg > >
