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I also would like to congratulate the editor and contributors on R-News.

Perhaps this problem is unique to my own set-up (Redhat 6.2 I think), but
I found that when I tried to read the .pdf file with ghostview I got the
message:
Error: /undefinedGNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
 in /Im1
Operand stack:
   2073   4957
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop
.runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2
%stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   0   --nostringval--   %array_continue   --nostringval--
false   1   %stopped_push   --n
(the file wouldn't open)

Acrobat reader could open the file. When I tried to print, it
stopped at page 14. I subsequently found that pages 14 and 15 (Peter
Dalgaard's article) wouldn't print and the rest were OK. Perhaps there is
some weird postscript at this point. Or maybe ghostview/ghostscript is
buggy and I need a newer version (I have a nonpostscript printer and I
use ghostscript filter).

Bill

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Bill Simpson <wsi at gcal.ac.uk> writes:
My version of gv will show my article, but barfs at p8, 13, 16, 17,
and probably onwards (didn't check them all). That's been updated to
v.6.0 whereas stock RH6.2 is 5.50.

Xpdf reads it fine and printing it to a file from there also yield
something readable with gv, as does running pdftops on it. So probably
something is up with ghostscript and/or Acrobat.
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We can confirm the problem with ghostscript, too.  We'll shortly put up
a .ps.gz file which works fine under ghostscript.

-k
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We have put a postscript file (from dvips) on the web page, this
version is viewable with ghostscript and hence gv (at least on our
systems where we observe the same problems as described below).

Hope this helps,
Fritz
> Bill Simpson <wsi at gcal.ac.uk> writes:
  >> I also would like to congratulate the editor and contributors on R-News.
  >> 
  >> Perhaps this problem is unique to my own set-up (Redhat 6.2 I think), but
  >> I found that when I tried to read the .pdf file with ghostview I got the
  >> message:
  >> Error: /undefinedGNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
  >> in /Im1
  >> Operand stack:
  >> 2073   4957
  >> Execution stack:
  >> %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
  >> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
  >> --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop
  >> .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2
  >> %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
  >> --nostringval--   0   --nostringval--   %array_continue   --nostringval--
  >> false   1   %stopped_push   --n
  >> (the file wouldn't open)
  >> 
  >> Acrobat reader could open the file. When I tried to print, it
  >> stopped at page 14. I subsequently found that pages 14 and 15 (Peter
  >> Dalgaard's article) wouldn't print and the rest were OK. Perhaps there is
  >> some weird postscript at this point. Or maybe ghostview/ghostscript is
  >> buggy and I need a newer version (I have a nonpostscript printer and I
  >> use ghostscript filter).

  > My version of gv will show my article, but barfs at p8, 13, 16, 17,
  > and probably onwards (didn't check them all). That's been updated to
  > v.6.0 whereas stock RH6.2 is 5.50.

  > Xpdf reads it fine and printing it to a file from there also yield
  > something readable with gv, as does running pdftops on it. So probably
  > something is up with ghostscript and/or Acrobat. 

  > -- 
  >    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
  >   c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N   
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I also had a few pages that where unreadable. (5~6)

Yves Gauvreau
B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal
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I downloaded the ps.gz version just a minute ago and now I can read all the
pages with GSView 2.9 on NT.

Thanks again for the good work.

Yves Gauvreau
B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal
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Thanks Fritz for putting up the ps version.

Bill

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