Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files

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From	Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
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Peter Billam wrote:

> Greetings, I hope this isn't too off-topic... I find more and
> more I'm meeting pdf files that my gv (gv 3.7.1 on debian
> squeeze) can't display. For example:
>   http://www.peacefulpillhandbook.com/documents/MasterclassExit.pdf
> gives me:
>  Error: /rangecheckGPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>   in --.discardtransparencygroup--
> but other errors happen too, e.g.
>  --nostringval--   %erroreGPL Ghostscript 8.71:
>   Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> I'd say that I can't read even half the pdf's that non-linux users
> send me. Often ps2txt will get me through, but sometimes not.
> What should I do about this ?
> 
> Regards,  Peter
> 

Uncheck the (default) antialias option of GV. It seems that this option is 
not compatible with the transparency handling (checked with gs 9.02).

Still problems with the displayed page size in GV (but gs itself displays 
correctly).

Helge

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gv failing with more and more pdf files Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2012-02-03 10:15 +0000
  Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-02-03 11:19 +0000
    Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-02-03 13:12 +0000
  Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-02-03 13:37 +0100
    Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2012-02-03 18:15 +0000
      Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2012-02-04 06:13 +0000

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