Re: 980512: NetCDF Postscript Documentation

> >To: address@hidden
> >From: Tim Butler <address@hidden>
> >Subject: NetCDF Postscript Documentation
> >Organization: .
> >Keywords: 199805120708.BAA18170

Hi Tim,

> I'm having problems looking at the postscript version of the C guide
> for NetCDF-3. I'm using `gv` version 3.5.8 on Solaris 5.5.1.
> 
> When I fire up gv, I get the message:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Warning: failed to allocate 5x5x5 RGB cube.
> Error: /undefined in currentdistillerparamsAladdin Ghostscript: 
> Operand stack:
> 
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false 
>   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:596/631--   --dict:0/20--   --dict:70/200--   --dict:105/400--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 8348
> Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I get the same problem when trying to look at the FORTRAN version.
> Interestingly, the postscript version of the C++ interface does display,
> as does the earlier version of the manual, "guide-2.4.3.ps" (all downloaded
> from the same page: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs.html).
> 
> I don't get that problem at all when I look at postscript files from
> other sources (eg. dvips).

We can't duplicate the problem here.  The guides look fine using
/usr/openwin/bin/pageview on Solaris or ghostscript 5.0.3 on an SGI/IRIX
platform.

When I use ghostview 1.5 (a very old version which is the only one I
have access to right now), I get an unrelated error about inability to
scale fonts, but I assume that is a ghostview error.

  Error: /typecheck in --scalefont--
  Operand stack:
      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  null  12
  Execution stack:
      %interp_exit  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  
--nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
  Dictionary stack:
      531/547  0/20  57/200  286/400
  Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Can you try pageview instead and see if it works on your Solaris
platform?

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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