On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:00:54AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > I have made an important update to kerTeX, adding 22 more recipes > (packages) including beamer (LaTeX dependent) and all its > dependencies---there are also Jean-Fran\,cois Burnol's extended > precision numerical packages, a collection of fonts (Yannis > Haralambous' old German ones, for example) and misc. dependencies of > these packages. > > Since I'm not a LaTeX user, I'd like people to test beamer under Plan9 > and/or 9Front, specially to verify that kpstopdf (added to kerTeX) > yields the correct PDF result---the utility invokes GhostScript at low > level in order to have PDF pages matching exactly what was specified in > the PostScript files (it is not kerTeX dependent; it should work with > any PostScript file). > > The problem being that in order to have correct "fading" (shadows) on > the slides, the gs(1) "-dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY" option has to be passed, > and I don't know if it is present in the gs(1) version of all Plan9 and > variants, and I don't know either if, with various differing beamer's > options, some details of the PS and then PDF rendering will work > correctly or not.
One user reported that some recipes failed due to the copying of dirs. I have hence updated the pkg framework to add a customized version (I couldn't use dircp since it is, at least on 9front, a rc script; so I ended up using tar). You can update simply by updating the recipe [email protected] (that will path the pkg library). [email protected] and [email protected] have been updated (you can retrieve them individually or on bulk with [email protected]). The bad news is that GhostScript is too old and, for beamer, it can't translate the PostScript in PDF (it can't even display the PostScript). As said before, I can't do anything about that on the kerTeX side. For this to work, GhostScript has to be updated. Not a small task (and this is a reason why, I want to be able to have images without requiring a PostScript interpreter). -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1c3c196d02b3d7c6-Mdfb763ca90c25563fd5bfbfe Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
