Hi William, thanks for you rapid response!
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, William Henney wrote: > Hi Arnd > > I suspect this is down to bugs in the viewing software, rather than > in PyX To be honest, I don't think it is a PyX problem - I only wanted to make sure that I used PyX the right way. The fact that you don't see the problem clearly points to my toolchain... > 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. Sorry - yes, I am running debian sarge. > Have you > checked you have updated to the very latest acroread? I am using acoread 7.0. > Alternatively, > you could try using kpdf, which has improved a lot recently (although > I found it a bit slow in some instances). It gives incomplete results for this particular file. > 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 !!! Hmm, for me it is just 45K!? I am using: gs -v ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1 (2003-07-12) Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights reserved. > The upside is that even the dumbest, buggiest viewer should > be able to display it. I have put my files at http://www.physik.tu-dresden.de/~baecker/tmp/pyx_pdf_problem/ Maybe the problem is due to my version of gs? Just for the fun of it: could you send me your resulting t.pdf? Many thanks, Arnd ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ PyX-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyx-user
