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Xiaolin Wei and Jinxiang Chai developed a program that tracks human bodies in videos to create animated 3D models (which can then be viewed from any angle). It will be presented at Siggraph in Los Angeles.

Download a PDF or download the video.

Via New Scientist.

After installing Acrobat Reader in my home directory, I was getting the following error when trying to view a PDF using Firefox:

Could not launch Adobe Reader 9.1.2. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment. If the problem persists, please reinstall the application..

I fixed it by creating a “.profile” file in my home directory (/home/user/.profile) with the following line:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/apps/acrobatreader/Adobe/Reader9/bin/

Note: You might need to adapt acrobat reader’s binary path.

Sometimes, when you print to PDF using PDFCreator, you can get the following error on the last page of your PDF output: “ERROR: undefined [...] OFFENDING COMMAND:_ [...] STACK: [....]”

You can fix this problem following these instructions:

First, you must Rollback to PDFCreator 0.9.3 (unless a newer version then 0.9.5 is out).

Find the PDFCreator printer in the Printer and Faxes control panel. Right-click on it and select Properties:

Select the Advanced tab:

and select Print directly to the printer (this prevents spooling the PDF output to the disk twice). Now select the Device Settings tab:

and set Send CTRL-D After Each Job to No. Also change the Wait Timeout to 1 seconds:

Thanks to David Taft, Brent Powers and http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSWriter/GSWriter.html.

PS: If PDFCreator truncates, trims or cuts filenames, make sure the path is not too deep. Try copying your files to the root folder and see if it fixes the problem.

Note: I re-posted this solution with different keywords because I had a hard time finding it because it was specific to GhostScript/Redmon.