[mindwaves]

Hi,

Preview usually opens .ps files with no problem, but I usually do some circuit layout and export to .ps, then to .pdf but when I open the .ps files with Prevew, it exports tto .pdf to view it, but then it opens it very slowly and it doesn't display the entire thing. I think Acrobat has no problems, but I am not sure.

Sample file:
www.alnora.com/mindwaves/test.pdf

Any ideas? Thanks.

[BGK]

this is strange. opening up this test file basically crashed my Preview.

[chaldean oracle]

Post the postscript file? That .pdf was unhappy in Acrobat 6 Professional as well.

[sushiism]

running it in acrobat i can see stuff being built up in the background but then it all seems to get covered up by white so theres prolly a wqhite box over it all on the top layer

[asxless]

Acrobat Reader 5.1 in Jag opens your test.pdf and displays the circuit board in 'chunks' then 'blanks out' most of it, leaving the outer border, some small text along the upper left and a small amount of text (s0) in the upper left (within the boarder). Scrolling repeats the process. So it appears that there are some white objects being rendered on top of your circuit board.

-- asxless in iLand

[mindwaves]

Here is the .ps file. Thanks for everyone who tested. Ghostview on Windows Xp works fine....weird...


www.alnora.com/mindwaves/test.ps

[Krusty]

Alrighty then ..... for me, it acted just like sushiism mentioned. Circuit board drew slowly and then was obscured by white box.

BUT (and this if freaky), when I drug my Safari window back over it (to make this post) the left-hand drop shadow of the Safari window seemed to "erase" the white box (I could see the circuit board again in the Safari window's shadow). So, I move the Safari window out of the way again and the circuit board was back !! A few seconds later, the white box returned.

[clarkgoble]

If it works in ghostscript then try opening it with the following Applescript.

Code:
on open input_file
	
	do shell script "export PATH=\"$PATH\":/sw/bin;ps2pdf " & POSIX path of input_file & " /tmp/.psview.tmp.pdf"
	do shell script "open /tmp/.psview.tmp.pdf"
	
end open

Associate this with *.ps files and ghostscript rather than Preview will do the conversion.