[OS X TeX] white or blank pdf

[Themis Matsoukas]

I recently had a similar but not unrecoverable problem: someone sent  
me an eps which when dropped onto texshop produced a blank page and  
the console reported "AFPL Ghostscript 8.51: Unrecoverable error,  
exit code 1 Broken pipe".

Nevertheless, preview.app (as well illustrator cs2 and Peter's  
convert command) opened the file without complaints and produced a  
correct (as far as I can tell) pdf output. In other words, texshop  
was the only application that failed to open this eps file. I have  
the file, if anyone wants to dissect it.


Themis

On Jan 6, 2006, at 8:24 PM, a-petculescu at northwestern.edu wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> To answer your previous email, the PDF output is completely blank.
> As for using pstopdf, I get an error message,
>
> %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: obj ]%%
> Stack:
> 0
> 2
> %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
> %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
> pstopdf failed on file gaga.eps with error code -31000
>
> so the eps file may be indeed corrupted upon its creation.
>
> For some reason, no PDF file is created when I run the system  
> printer's convertor.
>
> Cheers,
> -Andi
>
> ==============Original message text===============
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 6:05:58 pm CST Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>
> Am 07.01.2006 um 00:32 schrieb a-petculescu at northwestern.edu:
>
>>  I tried both the printing convertor and ps2pdf. After running the
>> print convertor, nothing
>> happened, while ps2pdf gives the same error message as before.
>
> Usually you just can hear the disk's read/write heads move because of
> disk activity. The convertor programme is complete 'silent' because
> it's meant to be a filter programme that prepares one thing for
> another thing, every other than the filtered output could cause
> problems.
>
> Have you tried on the command line 'open <and then the output file
> name>'?
>
>
> And please make a difference between "ps2pdf," which is part of
> Ghostscript, and "pstopdf," which is an Apple programme! If you used
> ps2pdf on the command line and it gave a similiar error as the one
> mentioned in your previous eMail then it's likely that the EPS file
> on disk is damaged ...
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
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