From: matt (galaga_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 2007-06-12 09:44:31
have you tryed http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/
? pdf viewer for linux?
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Levak" <wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: <cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: SX-64 Service manual
> 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.
>
>
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