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Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files

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On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:19:45 -0000, ken wrote:
 > In article <slrnjincui.2ug.peter@box8.pjb.com.au>, peter@www.pjb.com.au 
 > says...
 >
 >> 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 ?
 >
 > Upgarde to a version of Ghostscript less than 5 years old ? Current 
 > version is 9.04, 9.05 is due for release shortly.

Not so easy if the distribution doesn't support it. On Centos (RHEL,
SL), the most recent official version is 8.70 and opens the example
cited by the OP just fine.

I'd report a bug to the ghostscript package maintainer; presumably
there's a patch available that Red Hat have applied and Debian haven't.

In the meantime, there are lots of other PDF viewers available on Linux
systems: evince, okular, epdfview, xpdf, mupdf, ... . 

Bob T.

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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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