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Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file

From ken <ken@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file
Date 2012-02-22 08:02 +0000
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In article <20491.3.1329847688252.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynp32>, 
ben.is.located@gmail.com says...
> 
> Hello. I am compiling a dissertation and am experiencing an error when I include too much content. Once I have created the .dvi, I can use

> and get the following error:

> Error: /limitcheck in --pdfmark--

So your document includes a 'pdfmark' operator, and one of the arguments 
being supplied is out of the valid range. pdfmark is an extension 
operator which is only used to create PDF files, it is usually added to 
create 'metadata' like bookmarks.

> Operand stack:
>    --nostringval--   Count   -1   Dest   chapter.2   Title   (conclusions)   OUT

Normally I'd suggest that a Count of -1 is probably the problem. 
However, the 'OUT' tells me this is an outline (bookmark), and negative 
values are permitted (the outline node is closed, hiding the children, 
when the file is opened)

To figure out the actual problem I'd need to see a file which fails (and 
I don't really want to download an 83Mb file.

At the moment I would guess that there is something wrong with the 
pdfmark, but you could try upgrading to a newer version of Ghostscript, 
8.71 is 2 years old now. If that fails you could open a bug report at 
http://bugs.ghostscript.com, attaching the smallest file you can make 
which exhibits the problem.


		Ken

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ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file ben.is.located@gmail.com - 2012-02-21 10:08 -0800
  Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-02-21 18:32 +0000
    Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file ben.is.located@gmail.com - 2012-02-21 10:43 -0800
  Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file ben.is.located@gmail.com - 2012-02-21 10:49 -0800
    Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-02-21 18:55 +0000
      Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file ben.is.located@gmail.com - 2012-02-21 11:19 -0800
        Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-02-21 21:15 +0000
  Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-02-22 08:02 +0000
  Re: ps2pdf fails on converting large .ps file Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-02-22 13:09 +0100

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