Re: ghostscript message when running ps2pdf
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Antonio Olivares writes: > >> Has anyone seen the following message: >> >> GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code >> = -1? >> >> This is the first time I see this error message when running >> ps2pdf on FreeBSD. Any pointers as to how to suppress these >> messages when invoking ps2pdf? > > I have not seen this message. However, I note Freetype(2) > recently had a minor version bump. Have you updated that port, and > could this be the cause of this problem? > That is it. The update in ports cures this message :) Thanks for the information. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
ghostscript message when running ps2pdf
Antonio Olivares writes: > Has anyone seen the following message: > > GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = > -1? > > This is the first time I see this error message when running > ps2pdf on FreeBSD. Any pointers as to how to suppress these > messages when invoking ps2pdf? I have not seen this message. However, I note Freetype(2) recently had a minor version bump. Have you updated that port, and could this be the cause of this problem? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ps2pdf problem
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Yes, I am sure:-). Powerdot class of presentations is designed to use PS tricks and can not be compiled with pdflatex or should I say you can compile but you will lose most of graphics and colors. ok sorry i dodn't read carefully. i just use standard latex from tetex port, nothing more. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ps2pdf problem
Wojciech Puchar wrote: For those unfamiliar with the package one needs to go through .tex --> .dvi --> .ps --> .pdf for graphics to display properly (pdflatex is not an option nor it is dvipdfm) are you sure about .ps stage? there is pdflatex, makes perfect pdfs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Yes, I am sure:-). Powerdot class of presentations is designed to use PS tricks and can not be compiled with pdflatex or should I say you can compile but you will lose most of graphics and colors. If you want to try let me know of the mailing list and I will send you a file for you to try. By the way powerdot class is not included in the standard teTeX distribution and has never been ported to FreeBSD. That is way, I use TeXLive. On the same note teTeX port of FreeBSD doesn't contain the fonts necessary for building the package from the source(which is trivial), actually even worse it contains the older version of fonts with lots of dependencies. teTeX is dead and the efforts of the community should be directed towards porting TeXLive to FreeBSD. Best, Predrag Punosevac ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ps2pdf problem
For those unfamiliar with the package one needs to go through .tex --> .dvi --> .ps --> .pdf for graphics to display properly (pdflatex is not an option nor it is dvipdfm) are you sure about .ps stage? there is pdflatex, makes perfect pdfs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ps2pdf problem
John Levine wrote: However, when I pass the .ps file through the ghostcript with ps2pdf slides gets trimmed. Is there some more advanced option for ps2pdfwr which will enable me to conserve the proper width of slides? It sounds like your pages are formatted as landscape and are being translated as portrait. See http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm There are also options for larger page size which might be what you want. It is well-documented bug. http://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html But patch didn't fix problems for me:-( I will have to investigate more. Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ps2pdf problem
>However, when I pass the .ps file through the ghostcript with ps2pdf >slides gets trimmed. > >Is there some more advanced option for ps2pdfwr which will enable >me to conserve the proper width of slides? It sounds like your pages are formatted as landscape and are being translated as portrait. See http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm There are also options for larger page size which might be what you want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ps2pdf problem
Dear All, I was wondering if you could give me little help with Ghostscript. I am using powerdot package to create presentation slides. For those unfamiliar with the package one needs to go through .tex --> .dvi --> .ps --> .pdf for graphics to display properly (pdflatex is not an option nor it is dvipdfm) Latex (actually TeXLive) and dvips do their job properly and I am getting beautiful landscape slides (.ps). However, when I pass the .ps file through the ghostcript with ps2pdf slides gets trimmed. Is there some more advanced option for ps2pdfwr which will enable me to conserve the proper width of slides? Giving the presentation in .ps format is not an option since interactive links on slides are active only if the slides are in .pdf format. GSview (Ghostscript) for Windows has capability to act as ps2pdf filter and does the job correctly but I am stamped by the fact that GV nor gs nor ghostview have similar capabilities. I read carefully man pages for ps2pdf and ps2pdfwr but I am not getting anywhere. I am sure that I am not the only one who is using LaTeX for presentations (with the landscape layout). What are other people experiences with the slides and the Ghostscript. Best, Predrag P. S. I am aware of Beamer, Prosper, and ppower4. None of these classes comes even close to the perfect layout, capability, and simplicity of the Powerdot class so I really want to resolve the problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: After using these tools, installing the epsmegre port (and some others) and then removing the latter again, the former have stopped working! bash-2.05b$ ps2pdf elcFront.ps Unknown device: pdfwrite bash-2.05b$ ps2epsi elcFront.ps Unknown device: bit bash-2.05b$ How come those devices they ask for have dissapeared, or why have they suddenly developed a need for them? Oddly enough, ps2epsi seems to produce the correct output, regardless of the error - ps2pdf not so. I have reinstalled ghostscript-gnu, but it didn't solve the problem. Are there some port around that messed with them in a way that didn't showed up untill I pkg_delete'd those ports? Possibly. That would be a bug in whichever port did that, and would be worth fixing, but we'd have to identify the bug first. I think the file in question would be: $ locate pdfwrite /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps $ so check to see if you have it. OK, so it is a file. I wasn't sure, and didn't think about "locate" it! bash-2.05b$ locate pdfwrite /usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/pdfwrite.desktop /usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/pdfwrite.xml /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu/work/ghostscript-7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps Apparantly it's there. Now why it's used I have no idea. Of course, I now have no idea which ports I have installed, deleted and reinstalled again )or in what order). /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange
Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After using these tools, installing the epsmegre port (and some > others) and then removing the latter again, the former have stopped > working! > > bash-2.05b$ ps2pdf elcFront.ps > Unknown device: pdfwrite > bash-2.05b$ ps2epsi elcFront.ps > Unknown device: bit > bash-2.05b$ > > How come those devices they ask for have dissapeared, or why have they > suddenly developed a need for them? > > Oddly enough, ps2epsi seems to produce the correct output, regardless > of the error - ps2pdf not so. > > I have reinstalled ghostscript-gnu, but it didn't solve the problem. > > Are there some port around that messed with them in a way that didn't > showed up untill I pkg_delete'd those ports? Possibly. That would be a bug in whichever port did that, and would be worth fixing, but we'd have to identify the bug first. I think the file in question would be: $ locate pdfwrite /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps $ so check to see if you have it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange
After using these tools, installing the epsmegre port (and some others) and then removing the latter again, the former have stopped working! bash-2.05b$ ps2pdf elcFront.ps Unknown device: pdfwrite bash-2.05b$ ps2epsi elcFront.ps Unknown device: bit bash-2.05b$ How come those devices they ask for have dissapeared, or why have they suddenly developed a need for them? Oddly enough, ps2epsi seems to produce the correct output, regardless of the error - ps2pdf not so. I have reinstalled ghostscript-gnu, but it didn't solve the problem. Are there some port around that messed with them in a way that didn't showed up untill I pkg_delete'd those ports? /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ps2pdf
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:34:14PM +, thursday wrote: > Greetings, > > Ok, sorry for the idiot question, but I am a bit confued. > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0), > and I need to avail myself of the ps2pdf utility. > > I understand that this utility is part of the psutils suite, which I > installed from ports without any problem. Your understanding is not correct. > > But ps2pdf doesn't install anywhere (and doesn't exist in > /usr/ports/print/psutils-letter/work/psutils). > > So I am a bit confused. It's installed by default apparently on a > couple of Linux boxes I have access to, but I'd rather use my FreeBSD > machine rather than the linux boxen. > > I know ps2pdf is just a shell script to gs (but gs isn't installed > either); can someone in the know give me a shove in the right > direcetion? ps2pdf is installed as part of ghostscript. As you note it is just a shell script frontend for ghostscript, so it is not of any use without that installed. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ps2pdf
** Reply to note from thursday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:34:14 + > I understand that this utility is part of the psutils suite, which I installed > from ports without any problem. No need for this in order to have ps2pdf. > I know ps2pdf is just a shell script to gs (but gs isn't installed either); > can someone in the know give me a shove in the right direcetion? portinstall ghostscript-gnu bye av. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ps2pdf
Greetings, Ok, sorry for the idiot question, but I am a bit confued. I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0), and I need to avail myself of the ps2pdf utility. I understand that this utility is part of the psutils suite, which I installed from ports without any problem. But ps2pdf doesn't install anywhere (and doesn't exist in /usr/ports/print/psutils-letter/work/psutils). So I am a bit confused. It's installed by default apparently on a couple of Linux boxes I have access to, but I'd rather use my FreeBSD machine rather than the linux boxen. I know ps2pdf is just a shell script to gs (but gs isn't installed either); can someone in the know give me a shove in the right direcetion? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
