I think you should try the newest version of PPower4 first before the group can help you. This is what Klaus keeps saying. There is now 0.9.3 I think.
Sincerely, Stefan Krämer ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:13 AM Subject: [PPower4] how to find out what is wrong with pdflatex's pdf > Hi! > > PPower4 is fantastic, thanks! But it does not work (on my iBook) on pdf files > created by pdflatex on my iBook, while it does work (on my iBook) on pdf files > created by pdflatex on other systems. However the pdf files on the > iBook are readable by acrobat and whatever, I cannot detect anything > wrong with them or my pdflatex installation. > > PPower4 gives the following error messages: > > [Richard-Gills-Computer:~/Desktop/Passion] richard% ppower4 passion.0.pdf passion.2.pdf > This is PPower4 version 0.8.4. > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String > at com.etymon.pj.PdfParser.parse(PdfParser.java:353) > at com.etymon.pj.PdfParser.getObjects(PdfParser.java:41) > at com.etymon.pj.Pdf.readFromFile(Pdf.java:789) > at com.etymon.pj.Pdf.<init>(Pdf.java:53) > at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PP4Pages.work(PP4Pages.java:718) > at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PPower4.main(PPower4.java:174) > > > > pdflatex gives no serious error messages, I append a small part of the > log file below. > > What to do? How to find out what is wrong with a pdf file? > Anyone else had and solved this problem? Anyone like to inspect my pdf? > > Richard Gill > http://www.math.uu.nl > > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211 (Web2C 7.3.7x) > (./passion.0.tex{/Users/richard/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} > LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> > Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n > ohyphenation, loaded. > (./foils.cls > > BLA BLA BLA > > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/upsy.fd))) (./passion.0.aux) > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex > loading : Context Support Macros / Missing > ) > loading : Context Support Macros / PDF > ) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty) > (./passion.0.out) (./passion.0.out) > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd) > > LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `U/msa/m/n' in size <35.83> not available > (Font) size <24.88> substituted on input line 65. > > BLA BLA BLA >
