xdvi and ghostscript

2002-12-15 Thread Dimitri Antoniou 
 Hi,

 I "upgraded" ghostscript from version 7.05 to version 8.0
 and xdvi stopped cooperating with ghostscript
 when the dvi file has an included postscript figure.

 In particular, in my SGI machine the xdvi keeps trying to show
 the figure and goes on forever,
 and in my AIX machine xdvi just dies.

 However, gs itself is able to display the postscript figure,
 it is the xdvi+gs combination that fails.
 My xdvi is version 22.40g

 Has anybody seen this problem?

 Dimitri

Re: dvips/pdftex: font / buffer overflow

2002-12-15 Thread Hartmut Henkel 
This is parameter T1_BUF_SIZE = 8192 in writet1.c, in the dvipsk and
pdftexdir directories. It is hardcoded by #define. Used both by dvips
and pdftex. Increasing it to 16384 in the source allows inclusion of the
christmas font.

Greetings Hartmut

> Error: module writet1 (file chrimbob.pfb): buffer overflow [8192 bytes]

dvips/pdftex: font / buffer overflow

2002-12-15 Thread Hartmut Henkel 
There is a free christmas font Chrimbobat (www.fontmonster.co.uk). After
making a myfonts.map file, the font could be included into TeX text, e.
g. by \font \chrim chrimbob at 100pt \chrim m \bye and displayed (even
zoomed into) with xdvi.

But dvips fails:

This is dvips(k) 5.92a Copyright 2002 Radical Eye
Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2002.12.15:2220' -> x.ps
. 
Error: module writet1 (file chrimbob.pfb): buffer overflow [8192 bytes]

And so does pdftex:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-beta-20021115 (Web2C 7.3.11)
(./x.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
[1{/usr/local/t
eTeX/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}{myfonts.map}]
) Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

Same after font conversion to .pfa.

ls -l tells:

-rw-rw-rw-1 hahe hahe   150415 12-04 09:06 chrimbob.pfb

Which buffer is this? Is this a web2c feature? Can the buffer be
increased?

Greetings Hartmut