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- From: henchey@hench1.enet.dec.com (paul henchey)
- Subject: Re: dxpsview error
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.203955.11550@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Lines: 39
- Sender: henchey@hench1 (paul henchey)
- Reply-To: henchey@hench1.enet.dec.com (paul henchey)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Jul20.182003.20739@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Jul21.075712.1036@mwk.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:39:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.075712.1036@mwk.uucp> you write:
- |>>
- |>> On a DECstation 5000 w/ a color screen, when trying to load a
- |>> Postscript file into Postscript Previewer (under DECwindows) we
- |>> receive the following message:
- |>>
- |>> as_root:/> dxpsview test.ps
- |>> X Error: BadAlloc - insufficient resources
- |>> Request Major code 53 ()
- |>> Error Serial #670
- |>> Current Serial #671
- |>>
- |>> The program then immediately crashes (without dumping core). This
- ..
- |>
- |>The only way I've been able to get it to work is to start it up without a
- |>file on the command line. Then I have to select WATCH PROGRESS under the
- |>OPTIONS... menu.
- |>
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- I've found that is possible to avoid such crashes of the postscript
- previewer by changing the watchProgress and useComments resources to
- on and off respectively. I did this by adding the lines
-
- *watchProgress: on
- *useComments: off
-
- to the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/DPSViewer. This way you
- can still specify a filename with your command to start the program
- and the "right" options will be set automatically.
-
- I believe that the problem being avoided here occurs only on certain
- workstations such as the PX which have limited bitmap memory available to
- the Xserver.
-
- Paul Henchey
-