[18486] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.15: distill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Nov 8 13:50:34 2000
Message-Id: <200011081850.NAA19553@dit.mit.edu>
To: boojum@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[18485] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:50:30 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi Laura,
>System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
>Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.15 (with mkserv)
>Display type: cgsix
>
>Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
>Window manager: fvwm2
>
>What were you trying to do?
> specify a level of compatibility at the command line
>
>What's wrong:
> neither the -noprefs flag nor the -compatlevel flag cause the
> choice of
> Enter Acrobat Distiller personal preferences file modification [1, 2, 3]
> [1] use 3.0 new features
> [2] use 2.1 compatibility
> [3] leave compatibility undefined
> to be skipped
The -noprefs and -compatlevel flags just seem to be ignored by distill
3.0.x, which is the Athena default version at the moment- this has
been known for some time. As far as I can tell, specifying option 3
produces the same output as option 2, "use 2.1 compatibility". I'm
reluctant to use your suggested fix (in a wrapper script) because it
might confuse users (more than they are confused already) during a
running semester by changing the behavior of distill- the message
still prints in any case. It also prevents use of option 1, which does
produce different output from option 2.
To take the issue further- we have a newer version of distill, 4.0.5,
which is in the frame_v6.0.0 locker (it's now supplied with
FrameMaker). To run it, do "add frame_v6.0.0; distill myfile.ps".
These issues won't come up because it doesn't ask for any
input when you run it. "distill -help" will print out quite a bit of
usage documentation. I plan to make it the default "distill" (as run
from the acro locker) after the end of the current semester.
Alex
