Hi Arnd
I suspect this is down to bugs in the viewing software, rather than
in PyX
On 30 Jan 2006, at 10:24 AM, Arnd Baecker wrote:
% latex t ; dvips t ; gv t.ps & ; ps2pdf t.ps ; acroread t.pdf %
takes ages
This method works fine for me on Mac OS X with acroread 7, not slow
at all. On the other hand, if I use Preview.app instead of acroread,
then the pattern is not displayed properly.
I also tried using writePDFfile in PyX and then pdflatex, with
essentially identical results (except PyX gave a warning message
about ignoring the line color in the pattern).
You don't mention your platform, but I guess it is linux. Have you
checked you have updated to the very latest acroread? Alternatively,
you could try using kpdf, which has improved a lot recently (although
I found it a bit slow in some instances).
Another possibility is to use ghostscript to "flatten" the ps file
before including it:
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -q -dEPSFitPage -dNOCACHE \
-sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=flat.eps circle_boundary.eps
This rewrites the file entirely in terms of "basic" postscript
operators. The downside is that it inflates the file size from 1kB to
2MB !!! The upside is that even the dumbest, buggiest viewer should
be able to display it.
Cheers
Will Henney
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