Subject: Re: pdf viewers?
To: Ryan Ordway <sammael@pacifier.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/14/1999 08:43:40
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Ryan Ordway wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> > I had identified a few pdfs that would always cause xpdf to dump core,
> > but after dowloading and installing the Dec. 24 snapshot, and
> > rebuilding xpdf, the problem is gone.
> > 
> > If you'd like to verify your build, one of the critical cases is
> > available on the web,
> > <http://www.apple.com/macosx/pdf/macosxserver-a.pdf>.
> 
> 	I had similar problems with the Inside Macintosh pdf's. I think it
> had to do with the size of the file. Bigger files would cause it to choke.
> Smaller files worked just fine.

No, it wasn't the size. Some of the files that caused xpdf to dump
core were as small as 15k. That one was a single graphic, a table.