poscript display problems

[Tim Kellers]

I was in a rush last night when I sent that e-mail.  I wanted to add 
that the file, when ftp'd to my MacBook (10.5.4), open just fine Preview 
and all the pages were readable.

Tim


Chuck Robey wrote:
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> Tim Kellers wrote:
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>> 55 completely blank pages
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> well, thanks very much, Tim.  You and Phil Ost tested, and I found out that our
> FreeBSD-ports installed gs seems to have some sickness, when being asked to
> display PS files that don't have embedded fonts ... because that's what this is.
>  I'll be investigating it further.  I  have already verified that at least some
> of the Linux-derived gs ports display this fine, so it's a ports problem of some
> kind, because of the testing, and I know my gs and gs fonts are installed the
> way they should be.
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>> Chuck Robey wrote:
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>>> Tim Kellers wrote:
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>>>> Send me one, I have gv installed (FreeBSD 7.0-Stable Xorg 7.3_1).
>>>>     
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>>> Great, it's attached, I really appreciate this.
>>>
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>>>> Chuck Robey wrote:
>>>> I'm seeing some odd display problems, and I need to get somebody else
>>>> to verify
>>>> for me if it's a pan-FreeBSD problem, or if perhaps I have some oddity
>>>> with my
>>>> ghostcript installation.
>>>>
>>>> My problem is, on doc files from the Xorg project, *.PS.gz files (and
>>>> not all of
>>>> these, only the ones deriving directly from Framework .mif files) gv
>>>> displays
>>>> blank pages, and ps2pdf is converting to blank pages on pdfs.  If you
>>>> have a
>>>> moment to do it, and would write me, I'd mail you one of these files,
>>>> and see if
>>>> you can view them yourself.  If you can, I need to look harder.  If
>>>> you can't,
>>>> then maybe we all need to (because one of the Xorg folks just told me
>>>> they can
>>>> read them fine using gv).  I need some independent verification.
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