Hallo!
> I think I've identified the problem: in the PostScript prologue
> file for
> pstoedit you find the following bit of code (slightly simplified):
>
> /getorigfont
> {
> dup /OrigFont known
> {
> /OrigFont get getorigfont
> }
> if
> }
> def
>
>
> I guess anyone, even not familiar with PostScript, can spot the
> error here:
> getorigfont is called recursively ad infinitum! I have no idea why
> this is so,
> but this mistake is easy to correct, by simply commenting out the
> innermost
> ?getorigfont?; and it indeed fixes the problem with Wolfgang's
> code.
>
> Why the error wouldn't happen with older versions of gs isn't
> clear to me and
> I haven't tested it (for debugging I used pstoedit 3.44 and gs
> 8.56
> throughout); on the other hand, it's quite clear why the bug
> wouldn't show up
> on code that uses only outlines and no font, like in the last
> example of
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User-Defined_Enumerations as George
> pointed out:
> the spurious piece of code is only used for font redefinitions and
> is therefore
> not called in the case of the fuzzy itemize style, because the
> symbols are not
> taken from a font.
>
> For people wanting to compile an amended version of pstoedit, the
> attached
> patch should do the trick, although hand-editing the relevant file
> (src/pstoedit.ph) should be just as easy (this is really a 2-byte
> patch ? and
> you can even turn it into a 2-bit patch ;-).
Thank you Arthur!
I have patched 'pstoedit.dll' version 3.44 (0x6B674: 0x20 --> 0x25)
and so it works with gs 8.57 for me!
Wolfgang
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