<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 15, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Ross Moore wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Themis, and Leo,<br><br>On 16/03/2010, at 7:32 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Leo wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hello all,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">A .ps file exported from Emacs somehow can not be viewed in Preview.app.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">If I run pstopdf in Terminal.app to convert it into .pdf file, it can<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">not be viewed either.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Any .ps expert can shed some light on this? I have attached a sample .ps<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">file.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am not a .ps expert but when I tried to open your file in Illustrator CS3 I got the message "The operation cannot be completed because of an unknown error," which seems to imply there is a problem with the ps file itself.<br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Themis,<br>at least you were able to save and attempt to open it.<br><br>For me Apple's Mail.app tried to convert it for display within<br>the Mail window. Of course it fell into a loop, thus freezing the<br>application and forcing me to (eventually) Force Quit.<br>On reopening Mail all I could do was reduce the viewing window<br>to nothing and delete the email -- no opportunity to save the<br>attachment.<br><br>Doubtless something similar has happened to others on this list.<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Odd. It opened fine for me, with both Preview and Adobe Acrobat 8, although it doesn't look like anything. I get the same error as Themis when opening it with Illustrator CS3. I've attached a snapshot of how Preview displays the file.</div><div><br></div><div>Leo, is this what the file is supposed to look like?</div><div><br></div><div>I get the same result with 10.5.8 on an Intel MacBook and 10.6 on a MacBook Pro.</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><img height="779" width="641" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:6D834790-26E3-4E23-B98D-71CD5725546A@acd.net"></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- </div><div>Alan Munn</div><div><a href="mailto:amunn@gmx.com">amunn@gmx.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>