-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, a friend of mine passed me a link to a beautiful 1944 "Chart of electromagnetic radiations" at <http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/let-chart-1944-teach-you-about-electromagnetic-radiation>. He wants to print the big version <http://www.popsci.com/files/radiationbigger.jpg> in four pages and joing them later. I have a laser color printer, his is B/W, so the task is on me :-) Fine! I say. Linux has the "poster" CLI app, just the very thing: poster (1) - Scale and tile a postscript image to print on multiple pages So first I convert the image to postscript, then I try a trial 'poster' run: cer@Telcontar:~/Photos/curios> convert radiationbigger.jpg radiationbigger.ps cer@Telcontar:~/Photos/curios> cer@Telcontar:~/Photos/curios> poster -s 0.8 -v radiationbigger.ps -o radiationbigger-poster.ps Using default media of A4 Using default cutmargin of 5% Using default whitemargin of 0 Opened 'radiationbigger-poster.ps' for writing Deciding for 2 columns and 2 rows of landscape pages. print page 1 print page 2 print page 3 print page 4 cer@Telcontar:~/Photos/curios> cer@Telcontar:~/Photos/curios> l radiationbigger* - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 10829489 Sep 8 13:14 radiationbigger-poster.ps - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 1825248 Aug 30 20:02 radiationbigger.jpg - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 10827572 Sep 8 13:12 radiationbigger.ps cer@Telcontar:~/Photos/curios> Wonderful. I'm already gloating. So I want to display the result with "gv" - bang! It errors with: Error: /limitcheck in -file-GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Operand stack: print_content_of_complete_page_0 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- - --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1894 1 3 %oparray_pop 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1771 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push Dictionary stack: --dict:1163/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:94/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local The generated postscript is bad, I can not make use of it. Ok, so then 2 questions: 1) Is this a known bug? (and is there a known solution)? 2) Is there another method to generate a 4 page poster without using the "poster" program? I tried "gimp" for a while, got nowhere. This is using 12.3 and: poster-20060221-87.1.1.x86_64 gv-3.7.0-12.1.2.x86_64 ghostscript-9.06-4.1.1.x86_64 - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIsXo8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VepACfQ6O/HbMwIrSe3fSq/okZCOpx /VYAoIYkn4MQwxqdjDBvmAxYteesV6Bl =GXnl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org