[tex-k] dvips bug?

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:49:22 +0000


Jody Weissmann writes:
 > When i apply dvips to create a ps-file something seems to go wrong:
 > With ghostview, only the pages up to the first page containing a picture
 > can be seen.
 > (The picture is about 200K)
 > The same thing happens if i print the ps-file.

sounds like your pictures are bad PostScript

 > since both ghostview and the printer fail to show the pages after the
 > first picture,
 > and since the document looks ok when looked at with xdvi, i assume that
 > the problem
 > is with dvips.

but xdvi uses ghostscript (as ghostview does) to show pictures!

convert them to PDF and back. thats a good cleanup.

sebastian