"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> 
> [ On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 10:49:52 (+1100), Toby Thain wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: 68020, 68882 instruction set?
> >
> > Well, the "MacBinary" is a red flag. gs is probably barfing on the
> > MacBinary header... I suggest you find a utility to strip the MacBinary
> > metadata off the file. (e.g. Stuffit Expander on a Mac, but if you were
> > using a Mac, we wouldn't be here :))
> 
> Hmmm....  thanks for the hint....  I learn something every day!
> 
> The 'unstuff' tool from pkgsrc/archivers/stuffit seems to do the trick,
> as does 'macunpack' from pkgsrc/archivers/macutil.
> 
> xpdf-1.0 does read the file just fine without 'unstuff', BTW.

It must have an heuristic to skip header garbage (up to %!PDF ?)

Toby

> 
> This document, BTW, is one where gv with antialiasing does a better job
> of making the fonts more readable than they are with xpdf (even on my
> 8-bit display), albiet with a lot more CPU horsepower required to do
> so....
> 
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