Re: gv 3.7.4 can not open a pdf file which indeed exists

[William Bader]

It works for me with the gv from https://github.com/william8000/gv and gs 10.03.1
What operating system do you have?
Can you try testing to see if the problem is the total length of the path + file name or the length of the file name or the embedded spaces or the embedded parentheses?

Regards, William

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Subject: gv 3.7.4 can not open a pdf file which indeed exists

 

Dear maintainers,

I included the affected pdf files in the attached.

When I open one of the two files, the "Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Com - Jean Gallier.pdf", I got the following error message:

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Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--

Operand stack:

   (/Calibre Books/Jean Gallier/Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Complexity, And the Lambda Calculus An Introduction-Univ \(572\)/Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Com - Jean Gallier.p...)   (r)

Execution stack:

   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringvaGPL Ghostscript 9.53.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

l--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1990   1   3   %oparray_pop   1989   1   3   %oparray_pop   1977   1   3   %oparray_pop   1833   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--

Dictionary stack:

   --dict:740/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:80/200(L)--

Current allocation mode is local

Last OS error: No such file or directory

-dFIXEDMEDIA

-sDEVICE=x11 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=2 -dMaxBitmap=10000000 -dNOPLATFONTS

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However I can open the file with xpdf at the same directory.

The other file "Discrete Mathematics - Jean Gallier.pdf" can be opened by gv.

I guess if the filename of the "Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Com - Jean Gallier.pdf" makes gv to fail to open the pdf.

Thanks

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