Andreas Klemm on Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:30:45 +0100 (CET)


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Re: apsfilter/acroread4 problem/fix ? only for freebsd ?


On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:55:29AM +0100, Olivier PAGE wrote:
> Andreas Klemm wrote:
> 
> > > I think the problem is with acroread4 because
> > > acroread4 -toPostScript -level2 -fast -size a4 -pairs file.pdf
> > > /dev/stdout
> > >
> > > doesn't produce any output on stdout !!!
> > >
> > > Am I alone with this problem ?
> > 
> > Yes seems so. Runs fine here.
> > My installed ports on
> > FreeBSD titan.klemm.gtn.com 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #0: Sat Mar 17 10:47:26 CET 2001     root@titan.klemm.gtn.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/TITAN  i386
> > 
> > acroread4-4.05
> > ghostscript-6.50_4
> > linux_base-6.1
> 
> FreeBSD remoudou.esm2.imt-mrs.fr 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #5: Tue
> Sep 12 17:22:56 CEST 2000
> acroread-4.05 
> ghostscript-6.01
> linux_base-6.1 
> 
> but ghostscript is not needed for this , isn't it ?
> remoudou# echo zzz > /dev/stdout
> zzz 
> remoudou# acroread4 -toPostScript -level2 -fast -size a4 -pairs
> /usr/local1/matlab/help/pdf_doc/matlab/apiguide.pdf /dev/stdout 
> remoudou#                                                                                      
>           ^-------- nothing

Maybe you try to print a PDF file, which doesn't have the fonts
included in the document. If you don't have the fonts on your
machine, then probably nothing gets printed ...
Only a guess.

Can you see the PDF file under x11 ? acroread4 file.pdf ?


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