makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs
Hallo, the following code let ghostscript fail. What is wrong her? Wolfgang \setupcolors [state=start] \starttext \useMPlibrary[txt] \startlinecorrection \TightText{\ss\bf 123}{0cm}{3cm}{red} \stoplinecorrection \stoptext % %ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII %pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 %GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
Hello Wolfgang and others, Has anyone ever managed to use "\useMPlibrary[txt]" in the last two or three years? On 7/21/07, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
Hallo,
the following code let ghostscript fail. What is wrong her?
Wolfgang
\setupcolors [state=start] \starttext \useMPlibrary[txt] \startlinecorrection \TightText{\ss\bf 123}{0cm}{3cm}{red} \stoplinecorrection \stoptext % %ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII %pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 %GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
I've written to the author of pstoedit exactly two years ago, when pstoedit v. 3.40 was indeed broken (approved by the author). He sent me a patch, but I didn't know how to compile the program, and I never tested it since then. Hans claimed that version 3.33 worked for him (and others approved that downgrading worked), but it didn't work for me, since I would need an older GS version as well. Here some infinite loop occurs when I call pstoedit -ssp -dt -f mpost mpy-bla-mpgraph.pdf mpy-bla-mpgraph.tmp (which is what ConTeXt does in line 328 of makempy.pl) I have no dea whether that's pdtoedit's or ghostscript's problem. I hope that the author of pstoedit will reply and figure out what the problem could be. Mojca
On 7/22/07, Mojca Miklavec
Hello Wolfgang and others,
Has anyone ever managed to use "\useMPlibrary[txt]" in the last two or three years?
The example (stroked roman-numerals for enumeration) at the bottom of http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User-Defined_Enumerations still works for me.
On 7/21/07, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
Hallo,
the following code let ghostscript fail. What is wrong her?
Wolfgang
\setupcolors [state=start] \starttext \useMPlibrary[txt] \startlinecorrection \TightText{\ss\bf 123}{0cm}{3cm}{red} \stoplinecorrection \stoptext % %ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII %pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 %GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
I've written to the author of pstoedit exactly two years ago, when pstoedit v. 3.40 was indeed broken (approved by the author). He sent me a patch, but I didn't know how to compile the program, and I never tested it since then.
The above example fails using pstoedit 3.44 and ghostscript 8.60, but with this version, ghostscript takes 100% CPU until killed.
Hans claimed that version 3.33 worked for him (and others approved that downgrading worked), but it didn't work for me, since I would need an older GS version as well.
Here some infinite loop occurs when I call pstoedit -ssp -dt -f mpost mpy-bla-mpgraph.pdf mpy-bla-mpgraph.tmp (which is what ConTeXt does in line 328 of makempy.pl)
Older GS exits: ESP Ghostscript 815.04: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Newer GS (8.60) loops.
I have no dea whether that's pdtoedit's or ghostscript's problem. I hope that the author of pstoedit will reply and figure out what the problem could be.
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George N. White III -
Mojca Miklavec -
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini