Re: metafun not working

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

luigi.scarso wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
> > Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >
> >> I tried it out before reading that paragraph and I can approve: unless
> >> you have an ancient GS, it doesn't work at all. 3.40 at least does
> >> something even though it crashes.
> >
> >
> > but i have no problems here with gs 8.51 (all 8 versions worked ok) 
> > and pstoedit 3.33, so how recent is your gs?
> 
> Confirm : under linux MP.tex works with pstoedit 3.33 , gs 8.51 and even 
> ESP Ghostscript 7.07;
> pstoedit 3.40 does not works correctly with gs 8.51 and 7.07
> 
> luigi

I believe that the version 3.33 works, but I can't find it anywhere.
Even 3.40 is difficult to download. Usually only some polite
"bandwidth exceeded" message appears. I don't know if the development
of the program is stil in progress, but they could switch to
sourceforge.

The version on CTAN is 3.31 - this is the one which doesn't work even
for simple conversions outside ConTeXt. The paragraph I posted to the
list was taken from "New or changed in 3.32". This means that version
3.31 can't cope with the old GS.

pstoedit 3.40 seems to work as well. I can make conversions from
postscript to metapost outside ConTeXt without any problem. Also the
posted example with metafun trickery works somehow. It crashes the
pstoedit program, but obviously pstoedit manages to produce the proper
output before crashing.

I sent a short email to the email mentioned on the webpage - I hope
they will answer.

Mojca