After updating my MikTex yesterday (I think that's when the troubles started), ppower4 does not like my pdf-s anymore:
--- start log --- H:\teaching\EK\w04\lect1>java -cp C:\Programme\Java\j2re1.4.2_01\lib\pp4pb.jar de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PPower4 lect1_slide.pdf lect1_slidep4.pdf This is PPower4 version 0.8.x-SP-beta5. Exception in thread "main" de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.TokenMgrError: Unexpected character '(' found in text string. at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParserTokenManager.MoreLexicalActions(PDFParserTokenManager.java:1305) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParserTokenManager.getNextToken(PDFParserTokenManager.java:1177) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.jj_scan_token(PDFParser.java:437) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.jj_3_1(PDFParser.java:349) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.jj_2_1(PDFParser.java:343) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.ObjectOrReference(PDFParser.java:254) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.Dictionary(PDFParser.java:243) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.Object(PDFParser.java:185) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.IndirectObject(PDFParser.java:123) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.parseObj(PDFParser.java:99) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.getObj(PDFParser.java:80) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFDictionary.resolveReferences(PDFDictionary.java:299) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.resolveObject(PDFParser.java:113) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.parseTrailer(PDFParser.java:65) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFParser.<init>(PDFParser.java:34) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.paul.PDFFile.read(PDFFile.java:91) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pudl.Document.<init>(Document.java:48) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pudl.Document.<init>(Document.java:60) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PP4Pages.work(PP4Pages.java:425) at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PPower4.main(PPower4.java:175) --- end log --- I admit, I do not understand a single word of it. (I'm glad I got this thing running a few years ago--better not to ask how.) Any computer wizards out there who know what this means (and how to overcome it)? Thanks, r' ---------------------- René Böheim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) www.econ.jku.at/boeheim Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Economics Altenbergerstr. 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria Tel.: +43-732-2468-8214 Fax: +43-732-2468-2-8214