Miki Dovrat wrote: > After some playing around trying to answer Paul's and Georg's questions, I > came up with these conclusions: > > My ghostview prints everything correctly - the eps's by themselves, the > lyx ps and pdf (dvipdfm and pdftex) outputs.
That either means that the eps generated by origin is correct, or that ghostscript is tolerant enough to understand it. > Acrobat Reader (both versions 7.0.9 and 8) fail to print the figures > correctly. > > Does Adobe not understand lyx pdf's the way ghostview does? I don't know > who to blame, Adobe or the lyx conversions of eps to pdf, but I suspect > the latter. > > It is a problem since the most wide-spread pdf viewer on windows is > Acrobat, and if I give the document to someone I would like for them to be > able to print it correctly. > > How can we be sure? We had a similar problem here some years ago. Certain lines of simple figures (made with xfig) would not show up in the pdf with acroread, but where fine in the ps file. We never found out whether that was a problem of ghostscript producing invalid pdf, or a problem of acroread not understanding the valid pdf that ghostscript produced. The solution was to upgrade ghostscript (IIRC the problematic version was 5.x or maybe 6.x). I suspect that in your case you see something similar. Either the conversion of the figure from eps to pdf (if you use pdflatex), or the conversion of the whole document from ps to pdf (if you use latex) produces something acroread can not understand. What version of ghostscript do you use? If it is older, does an upgrade help? Georg
