[FM Discuss] An Open Web book pdf version

[andy nicholson]

hey

yes the PDF works in Preview using OS X 10.6.7

andy

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Luka Frelih <luka at ljudmila.org> wrote:

> Dne 06.05.2011 (pet) ob 20:36 -0500 je Anne Gentle napisal(a):
> > I'm on Mac OSX 10.6.7, and I get an error trying to open in Adobe
> > Reader that says:
> > "There was an error opening this document. The root object is missing
> > or invalid."
> > Downloading with Firefox 3.6.3, reading with Adobe Reader 9.4.4.
> >
>
> thanks a lot, anne, this led me to:
> http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=463
>
> supposedly, it helps to apply ghostscript on the "ugly" PDF like this:
>
> $ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.7 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
> -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=Energiforsyning.fixed3.pdf
> Energiforsyning.pdf
>
> i did this and the result is at
> http://www.ljudmila.org/~luka/an-open-web-rootless-error-fixed.pdf
>
> note i did not get any message from gs like the issue describes.
> the pdf looks ok to me and is actually smaller than the original.
>
> can someone retest with this one?
>
> > I couldn't log it in Trac - the login I typically use wouldn't work,
> > and when I tried to register, I got another error.
>
> oops...
>
> LF
> > Anne
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Martin Kean <Martin.Kean at op.ac.nz>
> > wrote:
> >         Strangely, it opened fine for me in OSX 10.6, but I had a file
> >         opening error from 'Preview' in OSX 10.4 (screenshot attached)
> >
> >         Martin
> >         ________________________________________
> >         From: discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net
> >         [discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net] On Behalf Of Luka
> >         Frelih [luka at ljudmila.org]
> >         Sent: Saturday, 7 May 2011 11:07 a.m.
> >         To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> >         Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] An Open Web book pdf version
> >
> >
> >         > I was recently promoting this book on this page on irc and
> >         two persons
> >         > told me they could not read the PDF version.
> >         > I had no such problem on Ubuntu
> >         > ... but they had the problem using OSX -  Aperçu, Snow
> >         leopard 10.6.7
> >         > It maybe a bug of their reader as well, I don't know.
> >         > I just wanted to report in case there was something
> >         ill-formed in the
> >         > PDF creation
> >         >
> >
> >         thanks for reporting this issue, however unlikely it sounds...
> >         just to confirm, we are talking about this pdf:
> >
> http://new.flossmanuals.net/an-open-web/_booki/an-open-web/an-open-web.pdf
> >         linked from http://openweb.flossmanuals.net/ ?
> >
> >         as i have no easy access to a mac computer at this time, i'd
> >         like to ask
> >         list members with macs to give it a try. for those who are
> >         wondering,
> >         Aperçu is called Preview in english and is the default viewer
> >         for pdfs
> >         and images on mac osx. please send report of success or
> >         screenshot of
> >         anything that looks broken or out of place, along with your
> >         version of
> >         osx.
> >
> >         best,
> >         LF
> >
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