[vox-tech] help: postscript wierdness

[Matt Roper]

I'm not sure what's causing the problem, but the text also appears to be
missing for me when I first load it in gv.  I tried loading the file in
kghostview (the KDE PS/PDF viewer) and the text showed up just fine (as
an additional line at the bottom of page 31).  I think your problem
arises from gv's 'automatic' paper type detection.  gv chose to display
your document as BBox, but when I manually forced it to 'Letter', the
document displayed properly and the final line was visible at the bottom
of page 31.


Matt

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:09:44PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> if anyone would be so kind as to humor me on this one:
> 
> www.dirac.org/p/linux-gamers-howto.ps
> 
> there are a couple of places where gv doesn't display parts of
> sentences, and it's really throwing me for a loop.
> 
> here is the text:
> 
>   ... This presents a problem for companies like Transgaming (<xref
>   linkend="winex">) and prompted a fork of wine called ReWind (<xref
>   linkend="rewind">).  </para> 
>  
> this paragraph begins on page 31.  here is what i see at the bottom of
> page 31:
> 
>   This presents a problem for companies like Transgaming (<xref
>   linkend="winex">) and prompted a fork of wine called
> 
> page 32 *should* read:
> 
>   Rewind (Section 10.4.2).
>  
> but this text is missing from the top of page 32.  HOWEVER, when you
> look at the actual postscript, it's right there:
> 
> 0 56.2 M(re-licensed under the more restrictive GNU LGPL so that it could only be used for non-commercial puposes.)S
> 0 43 M(This presents a problem for companies like Transgaming \(Section 10.4.3\) and prompted a fork of wine called)S 0 29.8 M(ReWind \(Section 10.4.2\).)S
> /F8 SF 174.602 720 M(The Linux Gamers' HOWTO)S
> 0 0 M(10.3. Win16)S
> 474.768 0 M(31)S
> GR
> SP
> %%Page: 32 36
> %%PageBoundingBox: 72 36 559 756
> 
> 
> if someone could possibly help me out there:
> 
> 1. if you know why this is happening and how i can correct it, please
>     tell me.
> 
> 2. please verify that you can't see the missing line as well
> 
> 
> bug in gv?  bug in the postscript?  i make the postscript with:
> 
> JADEOPTIONS=-t sgml -i html -V nochunks -d ldp.dsl\#html
> 
> all:
>    jade ${JADEOPTIONS} linux-gamers-howto.sgml > linux-gamers-howto.html
>    ldp_print linux-gamers-howto.html
> 
> any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> pete
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