Subject: Re: [R] R-News
From: Friedrich Leisch (Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: Thu 25 Jan 2001 - 20:29:37 EST
Message-ID: <14960.17.177279.659822@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at>
We have put a postscript file (from dvips) on the web page, this
version is viewable with ghostscript and hence gv (at least on our
systems where we observe the same problems as described below).
Hope this helps,
Fritz
>>>>> On 25 Jan 2001 11:25:02 +0100,
>>>>> Peter Dalgaard BSA (PDB) wrote:
> Bill Simpson <wsi@gcal.ac.uk> writes:
>> I also would like to congratulate the editor and contributors on R-News.
>>
>> Perhaps this problem is unique to my own set-up (Redhat 6.2 I think), but
>> I found that when I tried to read the .pdf file with ghostview I got the
>> message:
>> Error: /undefinedGNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>> in /Im1
>> Operand stack:
>> 2073 4957
>> Execution stack:
>> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
>> --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
>> --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop
>> .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2
>> %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
>> --nostringval-- 0 --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval--
>> false 1 %stopped_push --n
>> (the file wouldn't open)
>>
>> Acrobat reader could open the file. When I tried to print, it
>> stopped at page 14. I subsequently found that pages 14 and 15 (Peter
>> Dalgaard's article) wouldn't print and the rest were OK. Perhaps there is
>> some weird postscript at this point. Or maybe ghostview/ghostscript is
>> buggy and I need a newer version (I have a nonpostscript printer and I
>> use ghostscript filter).
> My version of gv will show my article, but barfs at p8, 13, 16, 17,
> and probably onwards (didn't check them all). That's been updated to
> v.6.0 whereas stock RH6.2 is 5.50.
> Xpdf reads it fine and printing it to a file from there also yield
> something readable with gv, as does running pdftops on it. So probably
> something is up with ghostscript and/or Acrobat.
> --
> O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3
> c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N
> (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
> ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
> r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
> Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
> (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Thu 01 Feb 2001 - 16:14:44 EST