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From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Running Ghostview 1.5 in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Date: 2 Aug 1994 18:49:52 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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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.  If my BSD machine was in any way accessible to me
	I could tell you what needed fixing, but the best I can do off 
	the op of my head is to tell you to look around in the .c file
	where you find the above error string.  Maybe it will be obvious
	to you... I didn't take me all that long to fix, but I can't remeber 
	specifics.

	FYI,  this is also not a FreeBSD problem, since I had seen it under
	NetBSD 0.9a, and 0.9b beofre I went looking for it and fixed it.

				Sorry to be so vague...
						--rafal

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