ps2pdf produces wrong pdf files

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 11:03:27 UTC 2006


On 4/6/06, Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Whenever I produce a pdf file with ps2pdf, I get a pdf file that the
> > > > pdf viewers cannot view it: kpdf crashes, acroread reports a drawing
> > > > error,...
> > >
> > > Can ghostscript render the Postscript that you're feeding to ps2pdf?
> >
> > Yes, I can view the PS file correctly on GSView. Furthermore, if I use
> > ps2pdf on FC4 with the same PS file, I get a fine PDF file. So, the
> > problem is *specific* to FC5.
> >
> Not sure what happens to your ghostscript or ps file.  I generate a simple
> ps file using latex and dvips on FC5 and use ps2pdf to convert it to pdf.
> The pdf file can be opened by adobe reader 7 on windows and xpdf on cygwin.
> I'm not at my FC5 machine so cannot open it on FC5 right now.
>
> So how do you generate your ps file?  Try ps2pdf13 or ps2pdf14 and see if
> there's any difference.

I am generating my ps file going to

http://www.ox.ac.uk/

and printing the first page only to a file. Then, I apply ps2pdf. I
have tried ps2pdf13 and ps2pdf14, but no progress is observed.

Paul




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