Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files

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From	Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au>
Subject	Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files
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Date	2012-02-03 18:15 +0000
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Aah - high-quality replies, many thanks!

On 2012-02-03, Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> wrote:
> Uncheck the (default) antialias option of GV. It seems that this option
> is not compatible with the transparency handling (checked with gs 9.02).
>
Yes, it works :-)  At last I can see the contents.

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

Ken wrote:
> Upgrade to a version of Ghostscript less than 5 years old
Bob Tennent wrote:
> 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.

On debian stable I've got gs 8.71

> 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.

I'll see what I can do. They'll probably say upgrade to testing
(gv 3.7.3-1, gv 9.04) which indeed it might be time to do anyway
(except for the awful pulseaudio disaster about which I read so much).

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

I'll check them out.  Thanks again.

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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