[R] Problem reading a PDF output

[Uwe Ligges]

james.holtman at convergys.com wrote:
> 
> I generated a PDF output file of 10 plots.  When I try to view it with
> Adobe reader (R4 & R5), it will lockup the reader (it is consuming 100% of
> the CPU) after presenting the 4th plot.  I can generate the plots just fine
> in Windows and as a postscript file reading it with GSview.
> 
> Is there anyway to tell what might be wrong with the PDF output?  

I don't know of such a bug. Can you provide a simple example that
(re)produces such a plot that "lockups" Acrobat Reader? I guess it just
needs a huge amount of time for calculations, but I might be wrong ...

Uwe Ligges


> The file
> is 890KB in size if anyone would like to look at it.  The postscript file
> is 783KB in size.
> 
> I was able to isolate it to a single plot in a PDF file and it had 38,000
> lines of the following that composed 99% of the file:  (I was plotting out
> individual events, which were about that many)
> 
> 86.66 88.67 m
> 86.66 92.81 l
> 86.66 96.95 l
> 86.66 101.09 l
> 86.66 105.23 l
> 86.66 109.37 l
> 86.66 113.51 l
> :::::::::::::  38,000 more of the same
> 388.87 96.95 l
> 388.87 92.81 l
> 388.97 88.67 l
> 389.07 84.53 l
> S
> Q q
> 0.000 0.000 0.000 RG
> 0.75 w
> [] 0 d
> 
> Is this breaking some limit in PDF?
> 
> I am running:
> 
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    7.1
> year     2003
> month    06
> day      16
> language R
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