On Jul 28, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote:
On Jul 28, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On 7/27/07, Andrew Henrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To whom it may concern:
pstoedit it broken with respect to the latest gs interpreter
(ghostscript=8.57-1) under the unstable branch on fink.
This is kind of silly, since I think it works fine with 8.54
which is in the
stable branch. So basically, there is a package in unstable
(pstoedit)
which only works with the stable gs. Please put pstoedit in
stable where it
belongs.
Thanks,
Andrew Henrick
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gs-8.57 was added to fink unstable quite recently, so any "silliness"
is also quite recent. Moreover, if a package doesn't currently have
an individual maintainer, we rely on positive feedback from users to
have it moved to stable.
How about some more substantive feedback on the breakage vs. 8.57
before we move it? "Is broken" can mean a lot of different things.
For example, did you have pstoedit installed, and then update
ghostscript? If that's the case then it may be that pstoedit
needs to
be rebuilt against the new ghostscript to function properly.
Since pstoedit would be in both stable and unstable, it needs to
work in both.
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Fink User Liaison and Documenter
Not knowing what the problem is, I experimented a little and can
confirm that there is a problem using pstoedit on some files. If
this can't be fixed in pstoedit, maybe one could make pstoedit in
the unstable tree depend on ghostscript-esp for now. For my own
test case (an eps file with text and graphics), pstoedit worked
fine when ghostscript-esp (version 7.07) was installed instead of
ghostscript 8-57.
With ghostscript 8-57 installed, the pstoedit hangs and has to be
killed manually, leading to the following output:
"""
pstoedit -f fig angularmomentum.eps angularmomentum.fig
pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 (build Jul 28 2007 -
release build - g++ 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)) :
Copyright (C) 1993 - 2006 Wolfgang Glunz
^CPostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 2 executed
command : /sw/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -
dNOEPS /Users/noeckel/psinIo8P7x
The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed !
"""
There will soon be a new version of ghostscript (version 8), and it
remains to be seen if pstoedit will work with that. I haven't
looked into the actual reason for the problem with pstoedit and gs.
Clearly, to make progress it would help to know if your original
error reported above is similar to mine.
In my case, the problem was quite easy to fix even with ghostscript
8.57 installed: the original file angularmomentum.eps just needed
to be processed with the following command:
gs -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=angularmomentum2.eps -q -dBATCH -
dNOPAUSE angularmomentum.eps -c quit
This created an eps file (angularmomentum2.eps) that worked fine
with pstoedit. I'm not sure what the culprit is: the original file
had a higher postscript version that the new file (new: %!PS-
Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 versus old: %!PS-Adobe-3.1 EPSF-3.0), but there
could be many other things. Anyway, this seems to suggest that
it's not ghostscript that chokes in my test case, and instead
something is wrong in pstoedit.
Maybe this helps provide some data points toward a fix.
Jens
Included email with author:
I was able to get pstoedit working again with ghostscript 8.54 with
fink
sudo apt-get install ghostscript=8.54-3
FYI,
AKH
--
Andrew Henrick
Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that
his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Jn 13.1
On Jul 26, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Wolfgang Glunz wrote:
Hi Andrew,
yes - I know, this is a known issue due to newer versions of
GhostScript. It will be fixed in 3.45
BR
Wolfgang
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Henrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pstoedit hangs with gs interpreter
Hello Wolfgang Gluz:
I am hopeful that you can help me get pstoedit working on my
system again. I am trying to turn an eps file into a fig file and
get the following:
ahenrick$ pstoedit -f fig weno5.eps test.fig
pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 (build Jul 26 2007 -
release build - g++ 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)) :
Copyright (C) 1993 - 2006 Wolfgang Glunz
^CPostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 2 executed
command : /sw/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -
dNOEPS /Users/ahenrick/Desktop/thesis/figs/psinvCsg5K
The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed !
I installed pstoedit from Fink. Here's what I know:
ahenrick$ pstoedit -gstest -v
pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 (build Jul 26 2007 -
release build - g++ 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)) :
Copyright (C) 1993 - 2006 Wolfgang Glunz
pstoedit : path to myself:pstoedit 16 /sw/bin/pstoedit
loading plugins from /sw/bin using suffix: .so
loading plugins from /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44 using suffix: .so
loading plugin: /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvlplot.so
dlopening /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvlplot.so
loading dynamic library /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvlplot.so
completed successfully
getSymbol("initlibrary") succeeded.
loading plugin: /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvmagick++.so
dlopening /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvmagick++.so
loading dynamic library /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvmagick++.so
completed successfully
getSymbol("initlibrary") succeeded.
loading plugin: /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvstd.so
dlopening /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvstd.so
loading dynamic library /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvstd.so
completed successfully
getSymbol("initlibrary") succeeded.
loading plugin: /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvswf.so
dlopening /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvswf.so
loading dynamic library /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvswf.so
completed successfully
getSymbol("initlibrary") succeeded.
loading plugin: /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvwmf.so
dlopening /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvwmf.so
loading dynamic library /sw/lib/pstoedit-3.44/libp2edrvwmf.so
completed successfully
getSymbol("initlibrary") succeeded.
GS not set, trying registry for common/gstocall
nothing found so far, trying default
Value found is:/sw/bin/gs
first trying registry for common/GS_LIB
still not found an entry - now trying GS_LIB
nothing found so far, trying default
now calling the interpreter via: /sw/bin/gs -dDELAYBIND -
dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dESTACKPRINT -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS
GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
Copyright (C) 2007 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for
details.
GS>^C
PostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 2 executed
command : /sw/bin/gs -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dESTACKPRINT -
dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS
Can you please help. Thanks,
Andrew
Thanks for the quick reply.
Before I emailed the fink team, I emailed the author of pstoedit. I
have included his reply above. As I tried to explain in my first
post, pstoedit is broken. pstoedit still works fine with the gs
interpreter in the stable branch. Perhaps the unstable gs
interpreter has some different api that causes the hang up. My
suggestion, which was probably not the best, was to move pstoedit to
stable since
1) I haven't had a problem with it before this and so it appears
pretty stable and unlikely to crash anyone's system
2) It works with the "stable" gs interpreter.
These are probably not good enough reasons. In any case, I was under
the assumption from the faq that moving completely to unstable is the
way to go since the unstable branch is self-consistent. This does
not appear to be the case here.
I am not sure what the problem is and will simply hold off on
updating gs from fink for a while. Jens, thanks a lot for the work
around. Sorry to have been obtuse in the first email. I was rather
frustrated and working under a deadline when pstoedit broke. I am
not an expert in either fink or gs, so it took me more than a day to
figure out how to down grade to the stable gs interpreter, which was
at the time a shot in the dark anyway.
Thanks for your help,
Andrew
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