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Re: Problem printing Lout-generated PDF
From: |
Mark Summerfield |
Subject: |
Re: Problem printing Lout-generated PDF |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:31:54 +0100 (British Summer Time) |
Vince,
I use ps2pdf from
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/doc/Ps2pdf.htm
which seems fine if you use the standard postscript fonts.
Regards.
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:02:28 +0400 (MSD) Vince Levey
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I've been playing around with Lout, with a mind to adding it to the list
> of SGI Freeware (see http://freeware.sgi.com/ for details). I've come
> across the following problem. The environment is, of course, SGI IRIX.
>
> When I generate PDF output, I can view it with Adobe Acrobat Reader but
> I cannot print it. If I use the acroread "-toPostScript" option to
> convert the file to PostScript, showps/xpsview gives me the following
> when I attempt to display the resultant PostScript file:
>
> The current file contains a PostScript error:
>
> File: test.ps
> Error: nocurrentpoint
> Operator: currentpoint
>
> The previewer cannot continue with this file.
>
> I should say at this point that I get no problems whatsoever if I
> generate PostScript output directly from Lout.
>
> "lout -V" gives the following:
>
> Basser Lout Version 3.16 (May 1999)
> Basser Lout written by: Jeffrey H. Kingston (address@hidden)
> Free source available from: ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout
> This executable compiled: 06:28:42 Jul 5 1999
> System include directory: /usr/freeware/lib/lout/include
> System database directory: /usr/freeware/lib/lout/data
> Database index files created afresh automatically: yes
> Safe execution (disabling system()) is default: no
> strcoll() used for sorting by default: yes
>
> Adobe Acrobat Reader Versions 3.0 and 4.0 give the same results.
>
> Comments on this problem would be appreciated. Please mail me directly,
> since I don't follow the list at this stage.
>
> --
> Vince Levey
> address@hidden
> http://reality.sgi.com/vincel/
>
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