Re: PDF size

[Jos Smeets]

> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:38:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: PDF size
> To: address@hidden
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> 
> I installed 2.8.0 on a completely virgin winXP machine last week
> (ghostscript, py, scheme, etc. were not previously there).  This
> explains why I'm not experiencing any bloated PDF issues.  My PDF's
> are all 50k or under for quite a lot of music with lyrics and
> chordnames.  Sounds like the installer script just needs to verify
> the previously installed components. When I upgrade to the next
> stable release I will make a point of uninstalling before I
> re-install the new msi script.
> 
> 

A used the Linux installer to install 2.8.3 over my existing
self-compiled 2.7.28 (without uninstalling first...). I don't seem to
have problems with very big PDF files, but I now have problems with
lilypond-book when I use 'psbook' on the ps file. This Linux program
rearranges the order of the pages to make it easy to create a booklet.
When I try to view the resulting ps (or try to covert to PDF) it gives
the error message:

Error: /rangecheck in --get--
Operand stack:
   names   --nostringval--   1   9731   --nostringval--   51
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
%oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- Dictionary stack:
--dict:1115/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:81/200(L)--
--dict:53/72(ro)(G)--   --dict:10/30(L)-- Current allocation mode is
local Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 815.00: Unrecoverable error,
exit code 1

This didn't give me problems when I used 2.7.28. Could this have
something to do with the mix of gs versions (LP uses 8.53 and I have
8.15 on my system)?

Cheers,
Jos