Bug 37791
| Summary: | Screenshots don't show up on paper when printing handbook (book.ps) | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Stephan Eisvogel <eisvogel> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:22:10AM -0700, Stephan Eisvogel wrote: > >Synopsis: Screenshots don't show up on paper when printing > > handbook (book.ps) Known problem. Don't have a solution yet. This is one reason I'm actively investigating the utility of the XSLT toolchain now. N -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \ ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/_) State Changed From-To: open->feedback Is this still a problem for you? Recent updates to the document-building toolchain seem to have fixed this. Postscript version is printing ok now, using gv 3.5.8 (debian), screenshots are there in expected good quality. PDF still can't be opened using acroread 4.0, gives error 109. Suggest everybody uses book.ps.gz for the time being. Stephan State Changed From-To: feedback->closed According to Stephan Eisvogel the postscript version prints fine since Mon, 07 Oct 2002. |
I tried printing the FreeBSD Handbook, but the screenshots don't show up on paper. The file is book.ps.gz, 2531465 bytes, from Apr 5 04:01. E.g. the screenshot on page "18" (34 of 601) is completely missing. I am certain this is not a "page protection" or similar problem, the laser printer has 136 MB of RAM. Similarly the PDF document cannot be opened from acroread 4.05-5 (white pages and wrong page count by factor of 10). The problem pages appear to be displayed correctly for a split second but then are rendered a second time but without the screenshots. Fix: Recreate handbook, use newer/other/better PS/PDF converters, maybe use PDF 1.3 as output format. How-To-Repeat: I tried to print from a Debian (testing) and Windows machine. Printing using gv 3.5.8-26 and ghostview 1.5-27: no screenshots Printing using xpp 1.0-3.1: no screenshotsPrinting using printer's internal PS capabilities: no screenshots Opening book.pdf using acroread: fails to load Opening book.pdf using Windows: Acrobat 5 will not load document ("There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (109)." Converting book.ps to book.pdf using Distiller: still no screenshots