From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6305 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [pdftex] ConTeXt \insertpages problem with 1.00a-pretest-20010806-2.1 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:11:33 -0400 (AST) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20011210101040.04ec5d20@server-1> Reply-To: "George N. White III" NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396835 9281 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "George N. White III" , , pdfTeX Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20011210101040.04ec5d20@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6305 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6305 On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 01:29 PM 12/6/2001 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > >We have pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806-2.1, running on > >SGI Irix. Some of our students prefer Win32, so we also have 4TeX > >with many local "enhancements" including current ConTeXt, Perl, and > >pdf(e)tex running on Win95. > > > >On the PC, files "placed" via \insertpages produce blank pages in the > >output PDF, but the same files work as expected using the Irix version. > >The Win95 version gives an "unrecognized token" error in acroread 4.05, > >and the pdf file is somewhat smaller than the version created using the > >Irix version. > > > >I made some simple test files with \pdfcompresslevel=0. Under Win95, the > >contents of the placed pages appears to be corrupt. Before doing anymore > >testing, it would help to know if anyone else has seen this problem (e.g., > >is there something wrong with our configuration or is it a bug in the > >Win32 binaries?). > > Unrecognized tokens have to do with versions, what is the problematic token? The garbage that was inserted where the contents of the placed pages should be. I suspect the pdftex binaries I got (from MikTeX) ran afoul of a .dll version mismatch. Switching to fptex solved the problem, and since fptex appears to be based on GNU tools, I am hopeful that it will be less dependent on .dll's that get installed with other applications. MikTex can't be installed here because several of the dll's didn't match the required versions, and we have "department standard" applications that might break if I install MikTeX's versions. -- George N. White III Bedford Institute of Oceanography