Is GS broken on 10.04.4 LTS?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 28 June 2013 08:30:47 Gene Heskett did opine:

Ping?

> Greetings;
> 
> First, gwenview is broken, in a multipage eps file it can only show me,
> or print, the first page.  That isn't noted in any of the descriptions
> that entice one to have synaptic install it.  The ideal would be
> gsview, which can print each page displayed.
> 
> I have a 6 page eps document, generated by gimp from an .svg which gs
> can display just fine, cycling thru the 6 pages by hitting the enter
> key.
> 
> The man page says I can have it generate 6 individual page files using
> the -sOutputFile=nameoffile%d.xyz, so I would assume I can make 6
> individual page files by using nameoffile%d.pdf
> 
> I can remember doing that, on an amiga in about 1995, printing the
> complete 440 page pdf of the Portable Document Specification 3.0 by
> doing it to individual page files, then writing an ARexx script that
> inspected each page as to its size, and if less than 50 bytes it was a
> blank page that while containing a formfeed, did NOT first issue a line
> feed to get a printer that ignores a formfeed if its already at TOF, so
> I had to issue a linefeed to the printer to get it off of TOF, then a
> form feed to get it to eject the blank page so as to keep the pages of
> a duplex job in the proper order.
> 
> Sure I can.  NOT!  I own the directory I'm working in, and I have tried
> that syntax shown above, moving it around on the CLI but I have yet to
> have it generate an output file of any kind.  No errors are generated
> either.
> 
> Do I also have to specify something else too?  The man page doesn't seem
> to indicate that it is needed, so what gives?  Buggy gs?
> 
> Thanks for any clues folks.
> 
> Cheers, Gene


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