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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Thanks for the hint. I never thought about installing pstoedit. I just noticed long time ago that I was unable to make such fancy things, but I thought I was simply to stupid to understand the manual :(.
thanks for not blaming the stupid manual -)
However: after I somehow managed to download pstoedit (it is difficult to get it because too much bandwidth is used), it crashes every time I run texexec (just after the message "generating: metapost file"), but somehow it produces the result.
pstoedit
strange; are you sure that you have the right version? normally it's in the gsview distribution and ends up in some ghostgum path Directory of d:\ghostgum 10/24/2004 08:48 PM <DIR> . 10/24/2004 08:48 PM <DIR> .. 10/24/2004 11:16 PM <DIR> gsview 10/24/2004 08:57 PM <DIR> pstoedit 09/18/2004 09:40 PM <DIR> pstotext here i have the following versions: pstoedit: version 3.33 / DLL interface 108 (build Jan 6 2003 - release build) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2003 Wolfgang Glunz
gswin32c --help AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18) Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...] Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =) -dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages -g<width>x<height> page size in pixels | -r<res> pixels/inch resolution -sDEVICE=<devname> select device | -dBATCH exit after last file -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe, embed %d or %ld for page # Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Default output device: display Available devices: bbox bit bitcmyk bitrgb bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 bmp16 bmp16m bmp256 bmp32b bmpgray bmpmono bmpsep1 bmpsep8 cdeskjet cdj550 cdjcolor cdjmono declj250 deskjet devicen display djet500 djet500c eps9high eps9mid epson epsonc epswrite ibmpro ijs jetp3852 jpeg jpeggray laserjet lbp8 lj250 ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 ljet4d ljetplus m8510 mswindll mswinpr2 necp6 nullpage pbm pbmraw pcx16 pcx24b pcx256 pcxcmyk pcxgray pcxmono pdfwrite pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pj pjxl pjxl300 pkmraw png16 png16m png256 pngalpha pnggray pngmono pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw psdcmyk psdrgb psmono pswrite pxlcolor pxlmono r4081 spotcmyk st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 tiff12nc tiff24nc tiff32nc tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tiffgray tifflzw tiffpack tiffsep uniprint Search path: . ; d:\gs\gs8.51\lib ; d:\gs\fonts ; c:/gs/gs8.51/lib ; c:/gs/gs8.51/Resource ; c:/gs/fonts For more information, see c:/gs/gs8.51/doc/Use.htm. Report bugs to bug-gs@ghostscript.com, using the form in Bug-form.htm.
Time to switch to linux ...
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