Peter Rolf schrieb:
I have tested this some years ago and it worked without problems. A fast run with the old code ended in the nirvana for pstoedit (3.44) :(
When I manually run the following commands
pdftops mpy-outline1.pdf pstoedit -v -ssp -dt -f mpost mpy-outline1.ps mpy-outline1.mp
the last lines of output are
GPL Ghostscript 8.56 (2007-03-14) Copyright (C) 2007 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
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? Best regards, Stephan Hennig