From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35602 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:45:18 -0300 Message-ID: <22af238a0707290545p4f9c86d5n91c9cfbaba8502fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <46A15F1C.10201.81FB2C@wwl.musensturm.de> <6faad9f00707220603y2c803fban2bbfec7c46d22a5@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185714664 20691 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2007 13:11:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:11:04 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 29 15:10:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IF8Xu-0008Ud-HU for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:10:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059891FDD2; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:10:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13749-10-5; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:10:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFABB1FE7F; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:45:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515221FE7F for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:45:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10609-02-25 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:45:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.187]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C781FE7E for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:45:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k15so238480rvb for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.115.106.7 with SMTP id i7mr4663068wam.1185713118948; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.14.12 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:45:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00707220603y2c803fban2bbfec7c46d22a5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35602 Archived-At: On 7/22/07, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > 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 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. -- George N. 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