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From	Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au>
Subject	gv failing with more and more pdf files
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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

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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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