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[CC'ed back to the metapost list, since this is not only related to ConTeXt.] Peter Rolf schrieb:
Stephan Hennig wrote:
[makempy/pstoedit/Ghostscript hang]
That is, it seems as if pstoedit calls Ghostscript and that hangs. I've updated to v8.56, recently, and didn't observe any problems with pstoedit and MetaPost with older versions of Ghostscript (in other applications). What version of Ghostscript are you running?
also ghostscript 8.56
Could someone with an older version of Ghostscript please check if pstoedit/Ghostscript hang with the attached example? That would make it easier for me deciding where to send the bug report to. Best regards, Stephan Hennig input metafun beginfig(1); graphictext "Outlined text!" scaled 8 withfillcolor .7blue; endfig; end Name the file outline.mp and process with
mpost outline perl makempy.pl outline
or what's a proper method to run a Perl script on your OS. (With MiKTeX you can just say "makempy outline".)