On 6/14/05, Jason Foreman <threeve.org / gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/14/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/14/05, Jamis Buck <jamis / 37signals.com> wrote:
> > > > That seems weird. Is there anyone who can grant me access to a MacOS X
> > > > box with 10.4.1 to test this?
> > > >
> > > > JPEGs are supposed to be in network byte order. Jason, the other
> > > > option is to look at the ImageSize and see if it gives a similar
> > > > result.
> > > >
> > > > I want to solve this, but I don't have access to a MacOS X box. :(
> > > For what it's worth, the manual built fine on my box (10.4.1).
> >
> > Okay. The next step, I guess, would be for Jason to see about sending
> > me the tiny logo JPEG in his gem directory to see if I can tell
> > anything intelligent about it. It seems to have been corrupted during
> > install, somehow.
> >
> 
> This is very odd.  All the JPEGs open fine in an image editor, but
> they don't work with PDF::Writer...
> 
> Jamis, did you compile your own version of Ruby or patch the version
> that Apple distributes (I believe I used the Ruby on Rails installer
> for Tiger package) ?  I think compiling Ruby might be my next step.
> I've had this problem on two separate machines running 10.4.1.
> 
> Austin, I can provide you access to a machine if you want, but it
> sounds like this is my issue, not yours.
> 
> Thanks for the help guys.
> 
> Jason
> 

FYI, I've now tried all 3 available methods of installation of
PDF::Writer, Color-Tools and Transaction::Simple:  remote gem, local
gem, local tar.gz.  All three methods result in the same error as
before.  And I did remove the previous installs before installing a
new version.