ps2pdf produces wrong pdf files

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 15:15:26 UTC 2006


On 4/7/06, Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am generating my ps file going to
> >
> > http://www.ox.ac.uk/
> >
> > and printing the first page only to a file. Then, I apply ps2pdf. I
> > have tried ps2pdf13 and ps2pdf14, but no progress is observed.
> >
> >
> I did some testing.  acroread 5.0.8 reports an error but still displays it.
> xpdf and gv displays it without complaints.
>
> It seems to me it's the images causing problem.  I printed some pure text
> html page using firefox and converted to pdf using ps2pdf.  acroread 7.0.5
> and 5.0.8 can open it without complaints.
>
> It's more likely the fc5 ps print problem, I would guess.

Thanks! Yes, I also confirm that xpdf displays the pdf without any
problem. Perhaps, it would be a good idea to fill a bug on bugzilla. I
could do that in case the problem is confirmed by more people.

Paul




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