Thank you qwx for debugging the issue, which I could not reproduce despite installing gs 8.62 from 2008, the most ancient version I could find the source of for Linux. I followed your advice, fixed a remaining issue with the page numbers, and uploaded the result to the iwp9 website
http://iwp9.org/11thiwp9proceedings.pdf and also to shithub http://shithub.us/edk/iwp9-proceedings/HEAD/info.html Next year we'll provide, at the very least, a template to make things easier for authors. Thanks y'all for your patience, for reporting the issues, and for helping solve them. Cheers, Edouard "qwx via 9fans" <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue Jun 3 01:42:03 +0200 2025, [email protected] wrote: >> Thanks for the clarification. This makes me wonder if there are two >> different problems or perhaps the problem is caused earlier in the >> process. The plan9port version of page uses the gs on the native >> system, which in my case is version 10.04.0 (2024-09-18) running on >> macOS, while the Plan 9 page uses gs version 8.53 (2005-10-20). >> Looking closer, the error messages are somewhat similar (stack issue), >> but I can't tell. Another rabbithole left unexplored for future >> generations. > > All of the pdf files and the jpg image in the repo Edouard linked > render just fine with page(1) on 9front. What doesn't is the document > generated by latexmk at the very end, and the problem there as you > have probably realized is the Cover.jpg image included in the document. > If you use imagemagick's convert(1) to covert that into a pdf first, > then change the \includepdf to use the new Cover.pdf, it works fine: > > $ convert Cover.jpg Cover.pdf > $ ed main.tex > 37c > \includepdf[pages=1, noautoscale=true]{Cover.pdf} > . > w > q > $ latexmk > > Result: http://nopenopenope.net/up/main.pdf > > I suggest we just do this. > > Thanks all, > qwx > > >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 11:27:40AM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> > > Edouard, I tried viewing the main.pdf from your gitlab.com repo using >> > > page (9legacy/386 and p9p) and it exists with a "stack underflow" >> > > error. Searching for similar errors, it seems like it is due to the >> > > page command's inability to handle embedded images. I'm not sure if >> > > there's a workaround. >> > > >> > >> > The problem is gs(1) behind page. It is old and if something is using >> > transparency, for example, it can't handle it---and no: I don't >> > volunteer to update Ghostscript ;-) The question being in fact if >> > an intermediate step could not be a pdf library---the only thing >> > that may really need Ghostscript full capacities as a programming >> > language could be pic(1) (I haven't looked if it is the case) pic(1). >> > >> > I know that with kerTeX, John Hobby's MetaPost generates PostScript >> > but in fact it could be converted to PDF because the programming >> > capabilities (variables, flow control, conditionals and so on) are >> > handled by MetaPost itself. The result is a description of a fixed >> > image with few primitives. >> > >> > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 2:23?AM Edouard Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > I'm the one to blame, it appears I've messed it up in more ways than >> > > > one. I've also had reports of breakage from other people directly by >> > > > email. >> > > > >> > > > My apologies. I integrated some post-conferences paper revisions >> > > > without >> > > > checking the final document as I did for the printed version and this >> > > > was the cause of some of the issues. >> > > > >> > > > I've uploaded the source here: >> > > > https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/11thiwp9_proceedings >> > > > and will move it to shithub when I'll have an account. >> > > > >> > > > I'll try to correct some problems on my own, but please feel free to >> > > > chime in :) >> > > > >> > > > As Skip said, we'll use templates next year to make things easier for >> > > > everyone. >> > > > >> > > > [email protected] writes: >> > > > >> > > > >> you can't read it at all in page(1) >> > > > > >> > > > > how can we attract more plan 9 users to iwp9? >> > > > > >> > > > > sl >> > >> > -- >> > 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/T273587b7cce74ef5-M58a45929b21ade15ae14437c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
