Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript From: Peter Billam Subject: gv failing with more and more pdf files Reply-To: contact.html@www.pjb.com.au User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Message-ID: Date: 03 Feb 2012 10:15:47 GMT Lines: 18 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 8d362adc.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=Nael?9aSHie:LXj0CA`3KmL?0kYOcDh@jN7:H2`MmAUcH?AXjNnFo4j]G;2>V^?kWc:7ePC=`481mGoRa?Z\XN5lOVhBMiDgmUm Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.postscript:609 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 -- Peter Billam www.pjb.com.au www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html