Re: Problems with texexec

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi Dirk, 

Sorry for answering late, but I was away for a week.

>I am trying to set up and use texexec (in fact mainly to use its
>pdfarrange function). I am using the latest tetex distribution under
>Solaris UNIX. Having puzzled with the configuration and installation
>(texexec --make) I hope to have succeeded at least with this.

Texexec should run ok. The main thing left to do is to uncomment the
context format lines in the tetex config file.  

>Now using the pdfarrange option for example like
>
>> texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 grfguide.pdf

If you want a booklet, add --print=up 

>prioduces an document with the approbiate number of (virtual) pages, well
>arranged (even with the --addempy option) BUT there is always the first
>page repeated.

How do you mean repeated? 

>Using a document like pdftex-a.pdf I get in addition an error message
>
>   Error (1024) PDF version 1.3 -- xpdf supports version 1.2 (continuing
>   anyway

This means that there is a pdf 1.3 option used (probably the resource in
the mirrored page is not recognized). Normally this does not hurt, and some
day the xpdf libraries will catch up.   

>Or with cont-nlp.pdf there are only the first six pages processed ...

Hm. I uses perl to determine the nof pages, which is a wild guess in some
way. Since pdftex can do report this too (you need a recent version, say
14e) I adapted the responsible macros and texexec to this. More safe for
balanced and optimized documents. You may try the latest version (with
texexec 2.1).  

>With some other big document I got an error after the around 60th page.

This should not happen. Maybe a pdftex bug? 

Hans

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