Is GS broken on 10.04.4 LTS?

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2013-06-28 14:31, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2013 08:30:47 Gene Heskett did opine:
>
> Ping?
>
>> Greetings;
>>
>> First, gwenview is broken, in a multipage eps file it can only show 
>> me,
>> or print, the first page.  That isn't noted in any of the 
>> descriptions
>> that entice one to have synaptic install it.  The ideal would be
>> gsview, which can print each page displayed.
>>
>> I have a 6 page eps document, generated by gimp from an .svg which 
>> gs
>> can display just fine, cycling thru the 6 pages by hitting the enter
>> key.
>>
>> The man page says I can have it generate 6 individual page files 
>> using
>> the -sOutputFile=nameoffile%d.xyz, so I would assume I can make 6
>> individual page files by using nameoffile%d.pdf
>>
>> I can remember doing that, on an amiga in about 1995, printing the
>> complete 440 page pdf of the Portable Document Specification 3.0 by
>> doing it to individual page files, then writing an ARexx script that
>> inspected each page as to its size, and if less than 50 bytes it was 
>> a
>> blank page that while containing a formfeed, did NOT first issue a 
>> line
>> feed to get a printer that ignores a formfeed if its already at TOF, 
>> so
>> I had to issue a linefeed to the printer to get it off of TOF, then 
>> a
>> form feed to get it to eject the blank page so as to keep the pages 
>> of
>> a duplex job in the proper order.
>>
>> Sure I can.  NOT!  I own the directory I'm working in, and I have 
>> tried
>> that syntax shown above, moving it around on the CLI but I have yet 
>> to
>> have it generate an output file of any kind.  No errors are 
>> generated
>> either.
>>
>> Do I also have to specify something else too?  The man page doesn't 
>> seem
>> to indicate that it is needed, so what gives?  Buggy gs?
>>
>> Thanks for any clues folks.
>>
>> Cheers, Gene
>
>
> Cheers, Gene
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Cheers,
Patrick

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