ps2pdf produces wrong pdf files

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Apr 6 06:56:58 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:31 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 4/5/06, Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Whenever I produce a pdf file with ps2pdf, I get a pdf file that the
> > > pdf viewers cannot view it: kpdf crashes, acroread reports a drawing
> > > error,...
> >
> > Can ghostscript render the Postscript that you're feeding to ps2pdf?
> 
> Yes, I can view the PS file correctly on GSView. Furthermore, if I use
> ps2pdf on FC4 with the same PS file, I get a fine PDF file. So, the
> problem is *specific* to FC5.

GSView is likely to disappear from Extras shortly due to licensing
issues:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-April/msg00293.html

Paul.




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