Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-09-30 Thread Frank Küster
Hilmar Preusse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I don't even know the purpose of ebb. , ebb(1) | NAME |ebb - extract a bounding box from JPEG, PNG, and PDF files | | SYNOPSIS |ebb [ -v | -b ] graphic_file | | DESCRIPTION |ebb extracts the bounding box

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-09-29 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 31.08.05 Jin-Hwan Cho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Aug 31, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Frank Küster wrote: Hi, The only person who can fix the bug is the author of DVIPDFM. Of course. Can dvipdfmx be used as a drop-in-replacement for dvipdfm, even if you don't process CJK files? Are there any

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-09-17 Thread Hilmar Preusse
to drop dvipdfm in favor of dvipdfmx! Regards, Hilmar - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:56:27 +0200

Bug#322713: [tex-live] (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-09-17 Thread Karl Berry
Please consider to drop dvipdfm in favor of dvipdfmx! Funny thing. I asked the fmx maintainers the same thing, about completely dropping fm in favor of fmx in TL, and they advised me not to do so. fm had additional programs (ebb and something else), and different behavior in some cases.

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-09-05 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
On Sep 5, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Great! Just a short question: Do you know about http://bugs.debian.org/291438 and is it eventually fixed in DVIPDFMx? I've just read the bug report. The first report from Prabhu Ramachandran (on Jan 22 15:31:54 +0530) was related to cmp_dest()

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-09-05 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 05.09.05 Jin-Hwan Cho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sep 5, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Hi all, Great! Just a short question: Do you know about http://bugs.debian.org/291438 and is it eventually fixed in DVIPDFMx? I've just read the bug report. The first report from Prabhu

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-09-01 Thread Frank Küster
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For more than 3 years, DVIPDFMx have been extensively tested by many users. There might be some bugs which are not found yet. But the authors of DVIPDFMx try to fix immediately if reported to them. Sounds good. Maybe we should contact Thomas Esser and

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-31 Thread Ralf Stubner
Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: On Sep 1, 2005, at 12:13 AM, Ralf Stubner wrote: If you have the source code of DVIPDFM, check the file pdfobj.c. In the line 631, the function pdf_check_name() checks the validity of the character #. However, the variable valid_chars does not contain #. Thanks a lot!

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-31 Thread Frank Küster
Jin-Hwan Cho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Hilmar Preusse wrote: I'm sending this E-Mail to the author of dvipdfm and of dvipdfmx as dvipdfm seems to be dead actually (the latest version is from 2001 and in the Mail archive got 3 Mails in 2004 and none in 2005). The

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-31 Thread Ralf Stubner
Frank Küster wrote: Jin-Hwan Cho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Hilmar Preusse wrote: I'm sending this E-Mail to the author of dvipdfm and of dvipdfmx as dvipdfm seems to be dead actually (the latest version is from 2001 and in the Mail archive got 3 Mails in 2004

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-31 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
On Aug 31, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Frank Küster wrote: The only person who can fix the bug is the author of DVIPDFM. Of course. Can dvipdfmx be used as a drop-in-replacement for dvipdfm, even if you don't process CJK files? Are there any disadvantages? Surely DVIPDFMx can do that because

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-31 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
On Sep 1, 2005, at 12:13 AM, Ralf Stubner wrote: Well, the /ideal/ person to fix this bug would be the author of dvipdfm. However, dvipdfm is licensed under GPL, so it is possible to fix this bug, if one knows what has to be done. I have no idea what is causing these problems, though. :-(

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-30 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Hilmar Preusse wrote: I'm sending this E-Mail to the author of dvipdfm and of dvipdfmx as dvipdfm seems to be dead actually (the latest version is from 2001 and in the Mail archive got 3 Mails in 2004 and none in 2005). The following bug was submitted here at the

Bug#322713: (fwd) Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-23 Thread Hilmar Preusse
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Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-22 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hilmar Preusse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17.08.05 Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I modify (HKS 43 K) into (HKS43K) in the eps, everything works again. So it is a problem of the Space characters, the way

Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-21 Thread Frank Küster
Hilmar Preusse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17.08.05 Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I modify (HKS 43 K) into (HKS43K) in the eps, everything works again. So it is a problem of the Space characters, the way gs convertes them, and dvipdfm not

Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-20 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 17.08.05 Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I modify (HKS 43 K) into (HKS43K) in the eps, everything works again. So it is a problem of the Space characters, the way gs convertes them, and dvipdfm not understanding them. It seems it is rather a

Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Hadmut, wir müssen leider nochmal nachfragen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tracked this down to: - The EPS contains a command like 1 0.75 0 0 (HKS 43 K) false newcmykcustomcolor - dvipdfm calls gs to convert included EPS into PDF. Latest version of gs-eps produces a PDF file

Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Frank Küster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tracked this down to: - The EPS contains a command like 1 0.75 0 0 (HKS 43 K) false newcmykcustomcolor Meanwhile, Hadmut has sent me the eps file in private (it cannot be published), thanks for that. I can reproduce the bug in sid, but not in sarge. The

Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-13 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 12.08.05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I am producing some reports using latex and dvipdfm. They all include the same EPS graphics, and it worked well for years. But since last debian upgrade, dvipdfm terminates with this error message:

Bug#322713: dvipdfm doesn't understand gs anymore

2005-08-12 Thread debbug2
Package: tetex-bin Version: 2.0.2-31 Hi, I am producing some reports using latex and dvipdfm. They all include the same EPS graphics, and it worked well for years. But since last debian upgrade, dvipdfm terminates with this error message: [1(../../../../Common/Doku/logo4c.epsPSInvalid PDF