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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!amd!amdahl!amdahl.uts.amdahl.com!agc From: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Subject: Re: Running Ghostview 1.5 in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Message-ID: <1994Aug3.092818.5190@uts.amdahl.com> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA References: <1994Aug2.031751.16188@uxmail.ust.hk> <31m4gg$rgr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 09:28:18 GMT Lines: 27 In article <31m4gg$rgr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) writes: ] ccrico@uxmail.ust.hk (Rico Lam) writes: ] ] > I have compiled the ghostscript 2.6.1 under FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 ] >and it work. When I compile the ghostview and "make" the ghostview. ] >It have no error come up. When I run and load Postscript file. ] >It have the following error.. ] ] >"gs: Malformed ghostview color property ] >Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window." ] ] [...] ] ] I blieve that that was an actual bug in GHOSTSCRIPT, not in ] GhostView. Yup, and it was cured by grabbing the 4 fixes to ghostscript-2.6.1 that should have been made available at the same time as you got ghostscript. Simply apply all 4 patches, and then re-compile ghostscript. As far as I know, this is in the ghostscript FAQ. Cheers, Alistair -- Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 252 346377 Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. [These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]