From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6402 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jens-Uwe Morawski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: mptopdf installation Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 19:25:53 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20011225192553.7d91cf2e.morawski@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396932 10325 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6402 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6402 Hullo, i have installed the current stable release from ctan dated 2001-11-13. Until today it never was a problem getting mptopdf working; but now i get: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) {/home/jens/archive/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} Missing character: There is no ^^@ in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no = in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no 1 in font nullfont! [MP to PDF verdunklung.1] (./verdunklung.1 ! Undefined control sequence. \handleMPsequence ...leMPsequenceA \else \@EAEAEA \dohandleMPsequenceB \fi \... l.11 %%M etaPostSpecials: 1.0 123 Using the support files from tug.org/applications/pdftex i get: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) {/home/jens/archive/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} [MP to PDF verdunklung.1] (./verdunklung.1 ! Undefined control sequence. \handleMPsequence ->\checkMPpath \ifcase \nofMPsegments \else \let \extraMPp... l.20 closepath fill ? ConTeXt is installed in a local path, there is always an old version in the original teTeX tree present. But as i can see the files in the old tree are not used, thus a version mismatch can not occur. Here is the log of the format generation root > texexec --make --tex pdftex --format mptopdf --alone TeXExec 2.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001 This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) (INITEX) (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/context/mptopdf.tex (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-tex.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain [ many equal messages from log deleted ] more fonts, skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping scaled \font in plain skipping scaled \font in plain skipping scaled \font in plain skipping \font in plain skipping \skewchar in plain skipping \skewchar in plain skipping \skewchar in plain skipping \skewchar in plain skipping \skewchar in plain skipping \skewchar in plain skipping \textfont in plain skipping \scriptfont in plain skipping \scriptscriptfont in plain skipping \textfont in plain skipping \scriptfont in plain skipping \scriptscriptfont in plain skipping \textfont in plain skipping \scriptfont in plain skipping \scriptscriptfont in plain skipping \textfont in plain skipping \scriptfont in plain skipping \scriptscriptfont in plain skipping \textfont in plain skipping \textfont in plain skipping \textfont in plain skipping \scriptfont in plain skipping \scriptscriptfont in plain skipping \textfont in plain macros, math definitions, skipping used \tenex in plain output routines, hyphenation skipping \input in plain skipping \tenrm in plain )) (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex loading : Context Support Macros / Missing ) loading : Context Support Macros / PDF ) (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mpe.tex loading : MetaPost Special Extensions ) ) Beginning to dump on file mptopdf.fmt (format=mptopdf 2001.12.25) 2690 strings of total length 37908 12054 memory locations dumped; current usage is 116&11935 1349 multiletter control sequences \font\nullfont=nullfont 0 words of font info for 0 preloaded fonts 0 hyphenation exceptions Hyphenation trie of length 256 has 0 ops out of 1501 No pages of output. Transcript written on mptopdf.log. TeX binary : pdftex format(s) : mptopdf total run time : 0 seconds ---- I have moved the fmt-file to /usr/share/texmf/web2c where other fmt-files normally also are. Since this fmt-file is the only existing mptopdf.fmt in the system i'm sure that this is the one used. Since this problem also breaks the direct MPS-inclusion in documents i'm really in trouble. Any hints? Thanks in advance, best Jens