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
Archive generated by hypermail pre-2.1.8.