can't read some doc files

[Chuck Robey]

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James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> writes:
> 
> Chuck> The postscript files that seem to have been generated from .mif
> Chuck> files, don't seem to be readable by any of my unix postscript
> Chuck> tools.
> 
> What versions?  I just tested, from your list, lbx.PS.gz in ghostscript
> 8.62 w/o any problems.  (Direcly and via gv(1).)
> 
> GS 8.62's pd2pdf created PDFs from those PS files which work well in
> both xpdf-3.02 and xpdf/poppler.  And ghostscript, of course.
> 
> The files do not include fonts, as they use the standard PS fonts Times,
> Courier and Symbol, so if you are not using ghostscript as a backend
> you'll need fontconfig configured to alias those font names to something
> metric-compatable you have installed.  (The URW ghostscript fonts and
> RH's Liberation family will work.)
> 
> As for the question you actually asked, MIF is a well-documented text
> format, and several conversion and import filters exist.
> 
> Googling for mif2xml shows some useful leads.
> 
> Mif2Lyx (http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pablo/mif2lyx/) also looks promising.
> 
> And there may be some interesting stuff at
> 
> http://ftp.irisa.fr/pub/FrameMaker/
> ftp://ftp.irisa.fr/pub/FrameMaker/
> 
> -JimC

I guess I need to see if maybe my FreeBSD ghostscript and gv is somehow
different than yours.  I get, on my gv, every page (I do get every page) blank,
as if there were no fonts, but I see no error.  ps2pdf, which uses ghostcript,
is equally useless for  me.  It works fine on all of the other files, just
giving me these blank pages on the .mif-derived pages.  If you get output, then
I need to look for some other source.  I really doubt it's fonts, I have no lack
of fonts, and I think I would get errors echoed to the screen for such an
occurrence.  This stuff looks fine, just giving me blank pages.
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