On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:12:35PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Jamin W.Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> wrote: > (on Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:43:57 -0500) > > > Have you tried xpdf? Is there something particular to AR > > that you need that isn't provided by xpdf? > > I just found one reason: if a site provides gzip compressed > pdf's (which some do, e.g. www.first.org) xpdf refuses to > handle the gzip'ped files presented to it by mozilla. Suggestions > for solutions? A script to replace /usr/bin/xpdf? Dunno about Moz, but netscape used to silently unzip files, but forget to change the extension; you'd end up with a tar file(for instance), called blah.tar.gz, which tar wouldn't be able to handle. If this is the problem, you need to either wait for Moz to fix it, or replace /usr/bin/xpdf with a wrapper script that either tells xpdf that just because something is .gz doesn't mean it's gzipped or one that moves the file to blah.pdf before invoking xpdf on it. -rob
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