Upon the recent postings on problems with Redhat Linux ghostscript displaying pdf files generated with the dvipdfm tool I contacted the author of dvipdfm Mark A. Wick. Mark discovered a programming error and has published a new release (0.12.6) available as Redhat rpm package on the dvipdfm home page (http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/). During my testing of that I still encountered problems with ghostview, arising during the ghostscript processing of the pdf files. Mark didn't recognize this with his ghostscript (release 5.50) and therefore suggested that I - and other musixtex hackers - might have problems with their ghostscript installations. It turns out that the Redhat distribution ghostscript is v. 5.10 while on Aladdin's ghostscript homepage the current Redhat release is 5.50 (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get550.html). After an upgrade to ghostscript v. 5.50 I am able to display pdf files with no errors ! Besides the obvious tool for displaying and printing pdf files is Adobe's free 'Acrobat reader' available for many OS's including Linux from Adobe's home pages (http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html) -- Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Phone: +45 89 49 53 01
