[18617] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.17: distill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered Floyd)
Fri Dec 15 15:09:23 2000
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Jered Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 2000 15:09:20 -0500
In-Reply-To: Alex T Prengel's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:53:58 -0500"
Message-ID: <s56elz978gf.fsf@vice-grips.mit.edu>
Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU> writes:
> We've encountered this annoyance before and unfortunately it comes from the
> distill binary (as you no doubt have figured out) so there's nothing we
> can practically do about it; at least a pdf file does get printed
> even if you can't select an option.
Ah; I didn't realize this due to a second problem; after spinning for
well over 20 minutes with full use of the processor, 'distill' failed
to produce more than 8k of output. I directed the user to 'ps2pdf' in
the gnu locker, which successfully produced results.
If I encounter this problem again, I'll see if it too is fixed in the
version of Distiller with Frame 6.
--Jered
