[OS X TeX] distiller barfs on the output of dvips

[christopher ciotti]

On Oct 11, 2004, at 11:03 AM, Lawrence Paulson wrote:

> I get quite a lot of .ps files generated by dvips, which I need to 
> convert to pdf. TeXShop and Preview have separate mechanisms for doing 
> this, but I sometimes need an alternative, e.g. because they are too 
> slow, the output file is too big, etc. I have Acrobat Professional, 
> but Distiller always crashes when given PostScript that came from 
> dvips. Recently I obtained some files that I could only convert to PDF 
> via some Windows software.
>
> Do other people have this problem with Distiller, or could it be a 
> problem with my set-up?
>
>

Hi Larry -

Is it possible to post an offending document or two on the web 
somewhere?


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