From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6346 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [pdf] erroneous pdf output Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:27:50 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011217121703.032376f8@server-1> References: <3C1C3B87.E0D55A83@seb2.eng.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396874 9713 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:14:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: spiff@seb2.eng.ohio-state.edu In-Reply-To: <3C1C3B87.E0D55A83@seb2.eng.ohio-state.edu> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6346 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6346 At 01:13 AM 12/16/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Hi all > >I tried running this file with >texexec --pdf test.tex >and the pdf file cannot be read by acroread. >I have also included the log . >Another thing the texexec stops due to something about >units and doesnt complain if no background thing is used. you need to change this in spec-ps.tex \def\dosomeovalbox#1#2#3#4#5#6#7% {\bgroup \dimen0=#4\divide\dimen0 2 \dosomeovalcalc{0pt}{+\dimen0}\xmin %%%%%%%%%%%% add pt after 0 \dosomeovalcalc{#1}{-\dimen0}\xmax [this is due to the fact that from now on the drivers work with dimens instead of numbers (was a left over from yandy driver support) which is more efficient for pdftex. BTW, there is a more advanced background mechanism, one that also obeys indentation and floats and alike: % output=pdftex modes=show \definetextbackground [whatever] [alternative=1, level=-1, % +1, background=color, backgroundcolor=green, frame=uit, framecolor=red, rulethickness=1pt] \starttext We thrive in \startwhatever information||thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge, harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify, list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate, discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick over, sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip, smooth, chunk, average, approximate, cluster, aggregate, outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into, flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim, refine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the wheat from the chaff and\stopwhatever\ separate the sheep from the goats. \stoptext Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------