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["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

I am working my way through my work-arounds ... evince refuses to print 
the document. The "gv" previewer on Linux is more descriptive of errors, 
and says of the errors:

$ gv list-in-fig-small.pdf
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  apLineDel
Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>apLineDel:    GV_Page(page+5)    
    '
Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct

I'm going to switch to MacOS and try some stuff...

My last-ditch workaround (before giving up and going with last year's 
notes) is to try to back-port to TeXmacs 1.0.7.3, but when I tried this 
a while ago, it was tricky. Among other things, all things marked 
"<postscript" in the old version are now "<image"; I could put those 
back in "view source" mode, but I'm not sure if there are other things 
I'd need to do too.

Dave W

On 08/12/2011 08:27 AM, David G. Wonnacott wrote:
> Hi fellow TeXmacs users,
>
> I am in the last stages of preparing course notes for the fall and 
> find I cannot upload them to lulu.com because of complaints about 
> corrupted pdf. "evince" on Ubuntu 11.04 also complains (see below), so 
> I think this is not a problem at lulu.com. With TeXmacs 1.0.7.7, I 
> have this problem; with 1.0.7.3 both evince and lulu like my PDF.
>
> I have several ideas for possible workarounds (load and print it from 
> evince or Apple Preview or Adobe Distiller, or export to LaTeX from 
> TeXmacs and see how that does, or save from TeXmacs as postscript and 
> use ps2pdf), but I've not yet had a chance to try these and I'm not 
> *sure* any of them will work. This seems to me the sort of thing that 
> might be higher priority than my previous problems.
>
> I have attached PDF files from the file "list-in-fig.tm", which was 
> the subject of a question days (weeks?) ago. I have the PDF from both 
> 1.0.7.7 and 1.0.7.3, as well as one (list-in-fig-small.pdf) in which I 
> took out the list is a figure that was causing margin overruns, in 
> case that was the source of the problem. According to evince and lulu, 
> everything I submit from TeXmacs 1.0.7.7 is bad.
>
> Here is what evince has to say:
>
> $ evince list-in-fig-small.pdf
> Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
> Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
> Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
> Error: Couldn't read xref table
>
> Note also that the new TeXmacs produces PDF files about 1/2M in size, 
> whereas the old produced about 22K.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide,
>     Dave Wonnacott