Hi, Recently I updated Ghostscript and it is now at 9.53.3
It seems xelatex compilation stalls and possibly never completes on some documents which I have been given and use pstricks. Here is a shortened console output $ xelatex foo.tex This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020) (preloaded format=xelatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./foo.tex LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 4 L3 programming layer <2021-02-06> .... .... uses animate package and pstricks .... <a0,fr0> <a0,fr1> <a0,fr2> <a0,fr3> <a0,fr4> <a0,fr5> <a0,fr6> <a0,fr7> <a0,fr8> <a0,fr9> <a0,fr10> <a0,fr11> <a0,fr12> <a0,fr13> <a0,fr14> <a0,fr15> <a0,fr16> <a0,fr17> <a0,fr18> <a0,fr19> <a0,fr20> <a0,fr21> <a0,fr22> <a0,fr23> <a0,fr24> <a0,fr25> <a0,fr26> <a0,fr27> <a0,fr28> <a0,fr29> <a0,fr30> <a0,fr31> <a0,fr32> <a0,fr33> <a0,fr34> <a0,fr35> <a0,fr36> <a0,fr37> <a0,fr38> <a0,fr39> <a0,fr40> <a0,fr41> <a0,fr42> <a0,fr43> <a0,fr44> <a0,fr45> <a0,fr46> <a0,fr47> <a0,fr48> <a0,fr49> <a0,fr50> <a0,fr51> <a0,fr52> <a0,fr53> <a0,fr54> <a0,fr55> <a0,fr56> <a0,fr57> <a0,fr58> <a0,fr59> <a0,fr60> <a0,fr61> <a0,fr62> <a0,fr63> <a0,fr64> <a0,fr65> <a0,fr66> <a0,fr67> <a0,fr68> <a0,fr69> <a0,fr70> <a0,fr71> <a0,fr72> [2] (./foo.aux) which looks good but then I get about a hundred **** WARNING: .setopacityalpha is deprecated (as of 9.53.0) and will be removed in a future release **** See .setfillconstantalpha/.setalphaisshape for the improved solution which are emitted slower and slower and slower until finally I have to kill the job **** WARNING: .setopacityalpha is deprecated (as of 9.53.0) and will be removed in a future release **** See .setfillconstantalpha/.setalphaisshape for the improved solution ^C(see the transcript file for additional information) Error 2 (driver return code) generating output; file foo.pdf may not be valid. Transcript written on foo.log. With the latex+dvips+ps2pdf route, compilation succeeds but the ps2pdf steps output abouts 220 warnings as above to stdout Also I have to use the -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY else the ps2pdf crashes, I did not know whether to post this to tlbuild or here. I did a quick check of archives of past few months. Quite probably the Ghostscript thing has been discussed probably one or two years ago. I understand my install is double-faced. On the texlive side it is darwin-legacy. However I felt there was a specific xetex issue because I have to CTRL-C with xelatex, not with ps2pdf. Regards.
