On Wednesday 31 October 2007 10:03:39 am Darren Dale wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:33:53 pm Ralf Gommers wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just installed mpl on ubuntu gutsy, and got errors after setting
> > text.usetex : True and ps.usedistiller : ghostscript. The problem
> > seems to be in checkdep_ghostscript() in __init__.py, specifically the
> > command 'gs -v' (should be replaced by 'gs --version').
> > For my system I get:
> > $ gs -v
> > GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.61 (2007-08-02)
> > Copyright (C) 2007 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
> >
> > and:
> > $ gs --version
> > 8.61
> >
> > Below I give a modified version of checkdep_ghostscript() that should
> > work for all version of ghostscript.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ralf
> >
> >
> >
> > def checkdep_ghostscript():
> > try:
> > if sys.platform == 'win32':
> > command = 'gswin32c -v'
> > else:
> > command = 'gs --version'
> > stdin, stdout = os.popen4(command)
> > line = stdout.readlines()[0]
> > vtest = '.'.join(line.split('.')[:2]) # deal with version numbers
> > like ' 7.07.1'
> > float(vtest)
> > return vtest
> > except (IndexError, ValueError):
> > return None
>
> Thanks for the report. This was already fixed in svn, but not using
> --version, which looks like a better solution. Could someone using AFPL
> ghostscript let us know what is the output of gs --version?
gs --version works with AFPL. Could someone please check that this works on
windows: gswin32c --version
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