On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Norm Finlay wrote: > My eps figures (from xfig) will not render either since upgrading from > redhat62 to redhat72. Looks like the current thinking is that the > problem stems from ghostscript. redhat62 used ghostscript5.50 and > redhat72 uses ghostscript6.51. Version 6.52 is available at > www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/gnu/gnu652.htm. > > Has anyone repaired this problem? I see that compiling 6.50 with a bug > fix partially fixed the problem.
Norm, ghostscript versions < 6.0 have several problems. Version 6.5.0 is reported to be buggy, but 6.5.1 and higher are reported to be much more stable. I would suggest regenerating your eps results from xfig using the newer gs. I don't know about that component, but the ps2pdf function was terrible before 6.0 so the eps function may be in the same situation. Rich
