-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/1/11 4:14 AM, Cyrille Artho wrote: > Dear developers/maintainers, > I am using Mac OS 10.6.7, 64 bit. After a recent "fink selfupdate; fink > update-all", "ps2pdf" stopped working correctly. In documents where .fig > files (from xfig) are embedded, some letters in text are dropped. This > seems to occur randomly but consistently for a given document. I can > reproduce the bug as follows: > > (1) Create a LaTeX document using a figure produced by xfig. > > (2) Convert it to Postscript; output is correct. > > (3) Call ps2pdf on that Postscript file. > > (4) Result: in some instances, text in embedded figures is partially > dropped. For example, "Analyze" becomes "Anal ze" or just "ale" or a > different subset of characters, depending on the overall document. Very > strange. Whitespace is sometimes added or dropped, too. > > The dropped characters seem somewhat random: The amount of text in the > document, and the overall complexity of the image, seems to affect the > output. Furthermore, in my tests, only text in Helvetica-Bold was > partially dropped, not text in Helvetica or a couple of other fonts I > have tried so far. > > The problem has occurred for the first time about two weeks ago, after a > recent update of all fink binaries. Is it possible somewhere to see the > history of updates, so I can try to downgrade ghostscript or maybe > another tool that may cause the problem (ghostscript-fonts perhaps)? >
ls -lt /sw/fink/debs > Unfortunately, a manual downgrade of ghostscript to an older version > (from source) has not resolved the problem. I wonder if ghostscript or a > different component causes the problem. Is it possible to see what > programs fink has recently updated? The web page only shows updates of > the last few days, concerning all packages in fink, not just the ones I > am using. > > I have attached a rather minimal example: after gunzipping, bug.ps is a > correct Postscript file with a few words (the text in red originates > from an .eps file coming from xfig), and bug.pdf shows the output of > ps2pdf, with some characters missing. Other ps to pdf conversion tools > (such as Preview on Mac OS) work. Alternative tool chains (pdflatex, > dvipfdm etc.) also work fine. So I think the problem is with ghostscript > or its fonts. > > This is a really weird bug, I hope someone can help me and shed some > light into this. > > My configuration regarding ghostscript/xfig is: > > fc-ghostscript- 20050601-1 > i ghostscript 8.61-5 > ghostscript-esp 7.07.1-36 > i ghostscript-fon 8.11-3 > ghostscript-nox 7.04-3 > ghostscript6 6.01-4 > ghostscript6-no 6.01-5 > i x-ghostscript-f 20020206-3 > > i xfig 3.2.5-1013 > xfig323 3.2.3d-4 > > > - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3mEggACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ98SgCfXkdIguh1ApJPrjNyPeB1tq1S CvgAn2yBrFS/PE9PfWcqQ2tD16YQOCfI =Be09 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
