Victor Eijkhout wrote: > > Why are both gs 6 & 7 listed with fink? > Somehow 6 got installed. What breaks if I deinstall it and install 7? > Do I need 7?
It's common wisdom that 7 produces pdf output that is not correctly rendered by MacOSX. At least this is the official reason for the existence of ghostscript6. I can confirm it from my own experience. You can at worst get pdfs that when viewed in Preview just show some randomly scattered symbols instead of nice formulas, and at best texts with wrong kerning after some ligatures. At one time you could produce kernel panics by just opening certain pdf files in Preview. There may be other problems I forget. On the other hand, my experience dates back from the ancient times of OSX 10.0.x. It is quite possible that nobody has rechecked this problem in more recent times. So you could do a service to the community by installing and testing 7. If possible, test it with all combinations of ps2pdf vs pdflatex and Preview vs Acrobat 5 and screen output vs printing. Although, if you installed TeX via fink, you won't be able to do this, because tetex-base depends explicitly on ghostscript6. Anyway, even with ghostscript6, there are bugs in OSX' pdf engine: Some people can't print correctly from Preview, although the screen output is correct, and have to use Acrobat Reader instead. For me it's the opposite: Preview prints correctly whereas Acrobat replaces some fonts by Courier when printing. This is with latex->dvips->ps2pdf. When I use pdflatex, Preview is not able to print the 'agrave' symbol: it should be '�', but it is '`a' with the a overprinting the following character. And so forth... -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
