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Re: pdf printing/viewing problem



on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:37:03PM -0500, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:00:42AM +0200, Ulrich Büchsel wrote:
> | Hello everybody!
> | 
> | I have a pdf file printing and viewing problem to which I don't find a 
> | solution. I have installed the gs an gs-fonts packages of Debian V2.2.
> | 
> | I don't get the system to print any pdf file nor to convert it into a
> | ps file. The program pdf2ps for example, which invokes gs, produces the
> | following error message:
> 
> Can you try "acroread"?  It seems to have the most complete PDF
> implementation.  I've seen quite a few pdf docs that don't work in
> gnome-gv (gs as interpreter) but do work right in acroread.  I don't
> know if they are non-conformant pdfs or if gs just isn't complete.

If none of the usual suspects work, contact the file's author and tell
them to fix their output.

NB:  Is anyone aware of a PDF validator of any sort?  Something, say,
moderatly like tidy which validates HTML.  Could be useful.

Peace.

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