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See http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30120 for the cause of this bug: TeXmacs 
is being configured without access to ghostscript.  Still, PDF export 
ought to be disabled instead of producing PS files.

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, David G. Wonnacott wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Many, many thanks for your quick reply. I now have a .pdf that even lulu.com 
> likes.
>
> I think there is a "user interface bug" in TeXmacs 1.0.7.7, though ... I 
> checked-and I definitely get that ps-content-with-pdf-name file when I click on the disk 
> icon and choose "Export
> as PDF". If I do "File->Export->PDF" I get the same thing.
>
> Dave W
>
> On 08/12/2011 08:53 AM, Paul Zarucki wrote:
>       Hi,
>
>       Your file list-in-fig-TeXmacs1_0_7_7.pdf is, in fact, a PostScript file. Rename 
> it to "...ps" and it opens correctly. Run it through ps2pdf and the size 
> comes down to 23K.
>
>       Regards,
>       Paul.
>
>       On 12/08/11 13:37, David G. Wonnacott wrote:
>             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
>
>
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