Re: [Groff] gropdf driver (was: pdfroff produces two copies)

[Deri James]

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:30:50 joerg van den hoff wrote:
>     **** Warning:  An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
>     **** The file has been damaged.  This may have been caused
>     **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
>     **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
>
> ... which Ghostscript apparently is able to do, since the display looks  
> OK, but
> something seems to be murky in the generated pdf...
>
> best regards,
>
> joerg

Hi Joerg,

I've tracked this down (thanks for the samples). I'd failed to notice the 
PDAReference (from Adobe) requires a trailing single space on each line in the 
XREF table!!&&**!!

Now fixed and 'gv' has stopped belly aching about it! Fixed version is 
available here:-

<http://www.chuzzlewit.demon.co.uk/gropdf/>

Cheers

Deri