[help-gv] Re: Incorrect object count in object stream

[Markus Steinborn]

Hi bryan,

brian wrote:
> [off-list]
>
> Markus, thanks again for the offer to have a look at this. I also
> found that Preview.app on Mac had problems with the same files: they
> would open but some images would not display. 
I'll do another test on Mac OS X later. Here are the results for Linux:
> I'm pretty sure that the
> problem is that the PDFs were created with Adobe CS4 with a
> "compatibility" setting of "PDF 1.7". I've let the client know that
> they should "save down" those particular files.
>
> (We still send book manuscripts to the printer saved as 1.4!)
>
> That said, I'll send you an example as I figure you'd like to see
> what's going on, nonetheless.
>
> many regards,
> brian ally
>   

Well, on my system "gv -noantialias Sawfly\ Sales\ Sheet.pdf" works, 
where the usual "gv Sawfly\ Sales\ Sheet.pdf" fails on page 2.
Plain ghostscript fails also (even when using latest GPL ghostscript):


gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha Sawfly\ Sales\ Sheet.pdf

fails, and

gs -sDEVICE=x11 Sawfly\ Sales\ Sheet.pdf

works. As ghostscript can render this file with some settings and with 
others not, there is definitely a ghostscript bug.

You see, if ghostscript crashes, there is absolutely no change for GNU 
gv to work correctly.

You should report a bug.


Some places for bug reports where this bug report would be on topic:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com

http://bugs.ghostscript.com




Greetings from Germany

Markus Steinborn
GNU gv maintainer