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From: Dario Alcocer <alcocer@helixdigital.com>
Message-ID: <15205.33565.519890.155921@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:54:05 -0700
To: "Robert A McDougall" <McDougall@agecon.purdue.edu>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ghostscript 6.51-1: ps2pdf, pdfwrite problem
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert A McDougall <McDougall@agecon.purdue.edu> writes:

    Robert> Under Win98, with ghostscript 6.51-1, ps2pdf generates
    Robert> broken files.  There seems to be a problem with the
    Robert> pdfwrite device in ghostscript.
            <snip>
    Robert> [in message box in Acrobat Reader] There was an error
    Robert> opening this document.  The root object is missing or
    Robert> invalid.

I will try to reproduce this problem.  As Jérôme Benoit points out, it
might be due to my not using the included Ghostscript JPEG library.

-- 
Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
Cygwin Ghostscript maintainer
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com

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