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brianj@skat.usc.edu (Brian Jones) writes:
>I was wondering if anybody was having problems with ghostview-1.1 using
>openwindows 2.0?  It works fine and dandy the first time I use it, but
>when I exit and try and go into it again, it gets flakey.  Sometimes, it
>will cause the window server to crash, other times it will just give me
>an error saying: "Error:  SmeBSB Object: Left Bitmap of entry "0" is not
>one bit deep."  I have no idea what that means.

>Ghostscirpt 2.4 works fine, and I have it compiled using both X11 and sunview.
>Ghostview gives me no trouble in Openwindows 3.0 or in X11R4 or X11R5,  Just
>Openwindows 2.0.  I was wondering if anybody else has come across this, or 
>if I am just a unique case?

You have just asked frequently asked question number 4, found in the README
file of the ghostview distribution:

    4.  When I start ghostview, sometimes I get this error:
        "Error: SmeBSB Object: Left Bitmap of entry  "0" is not one bit deep.."
        Other times it works.  What is going wrong?

        The only time this problem occurs is when an OpenWindows X server
        is the display.  It is likely a server problem.  I have placed a
        work around in ghostview that turns off all use of bitmaps.  The
        -openwindows option enables this work around.  However, with it
        enabled the current magstep, orientation, and media cannot be
        marked in the popup menus.

Hope this helps,  ...Tim
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