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Title: RE: [PLUG] PDF weirdness
Is the directory your in on the same filesystem as /tmp?
Could gv be creating a file on ., then trying to do a
mv ./file /tmp/..... mv will fail if the two filename
are on different filesystems.
George
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Gran [mailto:steve@lobefin.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 2:41 PM
>To: PLUG
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] PDF weirdness
>
>
>On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:31:10AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said:
>> Given a file /tmp/foo.pdf, I find, having cd'd into /tmp, that
>>
>> $ gv foo.pdf # works fine
>>
>> $ gv /tmp/foo.pdf # fails, postscript interpretation error
>>
>> I'm using gv 3.5.8 (debian), debian sarge.
>>
>> Diffing the files, the difference is one line for a file
>called stspchap.pdf:
>>
>> jeff@asterix:tmp $ diff gv_410fad36_1_stspchap.pdf.tmp
>gv_410fad1f_1_stspchap.pdf.tmp
>> 16c16
>> < (stspchap.pdf) (r) file { DELAYSAFER { .setsafe } if }
>stopped pop
>> ---
>> > (/tmp/stspchap.pdf) (r) file { DELAYSAFER { .setsafe }
>if } stopped pop
>> jeff@asterix:tmp $
>>
>> Any ideas what's going on?
>>
>> This comes up when viewing pdf's via mozilla or mutt. (Clearly a
>> wrapper script could get around this, of course.)
>
>I don't know gv or even postscript particularly well, but I do remember
>seeing discussion about SAFER mode in postscript apps in the Debian BTS
>recently, let me see . . .
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149987 might
>be of some
>relevance. Since I am not particularly familiar with the issues, I may
>have guessed wrong :)
>
>HTH,
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