Re: makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>]

On 7/30/07, Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org> wrote:

> > I have patched 'pstoedit.dll' version 3.44 (0x6B674: 0x20 --> 0x25)
> > and so it works with gs 8.57 for me!
>
>   (Yes, that 2-bit patch ;-)
>
>   Great! In the mean time I exchanged mail with the author of pstoedit
> (thanks to someone who forwarded my previous mail to him ;-) and it
> should be fixed in the next release of pstoedit (3.45). Actually the
> problem was (of course) a bit more complicated than what I first
> described and there was a reason why getorigfont should call itself
> recursively; and why it wouldn't work with newer versions of gs (I can
> explain it in case anyone is interested).

I'm interested, but it is good to post the explanation so it becomes
part of the public record google can find.  Problems like this have a
way of cropping up many times -- it will be a few years before all linux
distros have updated to the new version, and some will make backports
of the patch.  The next people who encounter this will benefit from seeing
the explanation so they can make the fix in somewhat different versions
of pstoedit..

-- 
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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