Re: bzip2 and Ghostview/Ghostscript?

[J Y D]

"Russell Lang" <address@hidden> wrote in 
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> "J Y D" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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>> Hi!
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>> As I remeber a while ago, 6-7 months ago, I was able to open bzip2-ed PS
>> or PDFs in GhostView but after upgrading to the newsest version (4.3
>> 2002-04-30) this does not work.
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>> Anyone knows if this has been removed from the program or ?
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> It still works in GSview 4.3 on Windows.
> Are you sure the file has been compressed with bzip2?
> What platform are you using?
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Dear Russell Lang,

Thanks so very much fo your response. I am on WinXP Pro and I use the bzip2 
for Win32 that I have downloaded from the official webpage. To make sure, I 
compressed again one PS and one PDF file which opened both uncompressed in 
Ghostview.

I once used the bzip2.exe and once my Windows Commander plugin and to my 
surprise, the PS file opened with no problem no matter the compression I used 
(1 and 9) by either of the ways but PDF file did not open at all (I mean 
*.pdf.bz2).

So, I guess in all my previous attempts I had been trying to open a 
compressed PDF file (and not compressed PS files) because as I see it now, 
compressed PS files open with no problem whatsoever.

Thanks again for letting me to rexamine the situation.

Good luck with your works and best of wishes,
J Y D