From: William Levak (wlevak_at_sdf.lonestar.org)
Date: 2007-06-11 06:17:38
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 silverdr@inet.com.pl wrote: > > On 2007-06-09, at 06:21, William Levak wrote: > >>>> Finally got around to downloading this, that is, going to someone with a >>>> faster connection than I have so I could download it in a reasonable >>>> time. >>>> Didn't do any good. Nothing I have will read the file. >>> >>> Every PDF reader should be able to read it. I assume you did unzip the >>> file, right? >> >> Oh, it reads it all right. It just can't do anything with it, like display >> it or print it. Ghostscript says it's not compatible and hangs up trying >> to load it. > > Hm, strange. OTOH Windows apps often do something "across" standards so it > might be the case that some GS versions don't like the file but I recall > opening it properly also on GNU/Linux, where GS was the engine. > >> It did say that it consisted of 29 pages. 20 M for 29 pages!! > > Right. I discussed already with the author of this file about the methods to > improve efficiency of this publication but of course everyone has to find the > time to do something for non-profit. Knowing how many problems I have finding > time, I can't blame anybody else. I can be only grateful that somebody was > able to do something at all. I can extract the images to .ppm with XPDF. The first page is 6592 x 5173 x 24 bit, file size 102,301,265. I can't find anything to open this file. I run out of memory. wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list
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