Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript From: Peter Billam Subject: Re: gv failing with more and more pdf files References: <9p22o5Fhq4U1@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: contact.html@www.pjb.com.au User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Message-ID: Date: 03 Feb 2012 18:15:03 GMT Lines: 36 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4aeae5e5.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=Q]f7kF[iTejF1iA^=`ZUjbL?0kYOcDh@j1I;RlOV 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 -- Peter Billam www.pjb.com.au www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html