On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 19:57:26 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Print to Postscript and use psselect from pstools.
Thanks for pointing that out - I'd never noticed those things lurking on my system! Seemed to work just right. I have an idea it's called 'psutils' though, just to be pedantic.
Don't use PDF. ghostscript, xpdf and acroread have different problems with them ;-)
I like that solution. Just one snag: I have all these IC data sheets sent to me, which I need to be able to read/print in order to be able to earn my crust. In the good old days, of course, manufacturers sent out real Data Books. Now all one gets is a CD-rom or an instruction to "go to www... and download the PDF". Either way it needs the use of GS/XPDF/AR.
Unless, of course, you know differently....?
Thanks for the input!
Gerald.
On 07-Feb-02 Edenyard wrote:
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 19:57:26 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Print to Postscript and use psselect from pstools.
Thanks for pointing that out - I'd never noticed those things lurking on my system! Seemed to work just right. I have an idea it's called 'psutils' though, just to be pedantic.
Hi Gerald, Does this mean you've managed to work round the problem where this particular file is concerned? If so, maybe you're off the hook till next time (hopefully far off).
The 'gv' error messages you reported in another mail suggest broken PostScript (specifically it looks like invalid data on the interpreter stack, which could however arise from PS virtual memory space filling up).
However, they don't point clearly to a specific category of "broken". If you like, I'm willing to have a poke around in that PDF file, and try things on it, to see if there's a generic problem and try to find a solution.
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