Re: Problem printing Lout-generated PDF

[Mark Summerfield]

Vince,
I use ps2pdf from 
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/doc/Ps2pdf.htm
which seems fine if you use the standard postscript fonts.
Regards.

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:02:28 +0400 (MSD) Vince Levey 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I've been playing around with Lout, with a mind to adding it to the list
> of SGI Freeware (see http://freeware.sgi.com/ for details).  I've come
> across the following problem.  The environment is, of course, SGI IRIX.
> 
> When I generate PDF output, I can view it with Adobe Acrobat Reader but
> I cannot print it.  If I use the acroread "-toPostScript" option to
> convert the file to PostScript, showps/xpsview gives me the following
> when I attempt to display the resultant PostScript file:
> 
>       The current file contains a PostScript error:
> 
>       File: test.ps
>       Error: nocurrentpoint
>       Operator: currentpoint
> 
>       The previewer cannot continue with this file.
> 
> I should say at this point that I get no problems whatsoever if I
> generate PostScript output directly from Lout.
> 
> "lout -V" gives the following:
> 
>       Basser Lout Version 3.16 (May 1999)
>       Basser Lout written by:      Jeffrey H. Kingston (address@hidden)
>       Free source available from:  ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout
>       This executable compiled:    06:28:42 Jul  5 1999
>       System include directory:    /usr/freeware/lib/lout/include
>       System database directory:   /usr/freeware/lib/lout/data
>       Database index files created afresh automatically: yes
>       Safe execution (disabling system()) is default: no
>       strcoll() used for sorting by default: yes
> 
> Adobe Acrobat Reader Versions 3.0 and 4.0 give the same results.
> 
> Comments on this problem would be appreciated.  Please mail me directly,
> since I don't follow the list at this stage.
> 
> -- 
> Vince Levey
> address@hidden
> http://reality.sgi.com/vincel/
> 

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