Re: [ROOT] Problem saving canvas as pdf - Mac problem?

From: Olivier Couet (couet@mail.cern.ch)
Date: Fri Jul 23 2004 - 16:30:12 MEST


Hi Christian,

 I have now access to a MacOS-X machine. I have rebuild ROOT on it, and I 
see your problem. Your macro generates a file which is not understood by 
acroread. So I will be able to debug that now. I'll let you know.

 Cheers,      Olivier


On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, cstrato wrote:

> Dear Olivier
> 
> Starting "root -n" results in the same problem.
> Maybe, this problem is Mac-specific, so running the macro on a Mac
> should reproduce the problem. As I have mentioned, this problem
> appears only after adding the line "gStyle->SetPalette(1,0)".
> 
> Best regards
> Christian
> 
> 
> Olivier Couet wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> >  This gv message doesn't give any extra information. The one I got with 
> > acroread trying to display your first file was clear enough: something is 
> > wrong in the binary part of that particular file. But I can only repeat 
> > what I said, without a  macro reproducing it, it is hard to debug this 
> > problem.
> > 
> >  Can you try to start root with the option "-n" to avoid to execute the 
> > root logon file, and check if you still have the problem in that case ?
> > 
> > Cheers, Olivier
> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, cstrato wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Dear Olivier
> >>
> >>I have tested my example again on Mac OSX, and on the Mac it is
> >>reproducible, both with Adobe Reader 6.0 and with Apple´s Preview.
> >>
> >>When trying to open it with gv on the Mac, I get the following
> >>GhostScript Message:
> >>Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file--
> >>Operand stack:
> >>    (/Users/rabbitus/ROOT/rootcode/xpsx/c1.pdf)   (r)
> >>Execution stack:
> >>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
> >>--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
> >>   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop 
> >>1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop 
> >>.runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2 
> >>%stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-
> >>
> >>I hope that this message may be helpful.
> >>
> >>P.S.: It seems that my mail with the example did not appear in
> >>roottalk although I have sent a cc to roottalk ,so I will try to
> >>send it again with separate mail so that other MacRooters could
> >>try to reproduce it.
> >>
> >>Best regards
> >>Christian
> >>
> >>
> >>Olivier Couet wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi Christian,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your example. I have tried it with ROOT 4.01/01 on my linux 
> >>>machine. I have generated a PDF file from the "File" pull down menu in the 
> >>>canvas menu bar. I can visualize the generated file without any problems 
> >>>with: acroread version 5 and gv on my linux machine and with acrobat 
> >>>reader version 6 on an XP machine. Note that I saw the problem with the 
> >>>file test.pdf you previously sent me (you had generated it with ROOT 
> >>>4.00/08). Looking at the recent changes in TPDF, I do not see one which 
> >>>could have fixed a such problem. It is difficult for me to debug this 
> >>>without a macro reproducing the it, because the error message you get 
> >>>comes from a binary compressed part of the PDF file. So to debug it I 
> >>>need to regenerate the file without compression.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,       Olivier
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, cstrato wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> 
> 

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