Date: 08 Apr 2005 10:36:43 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange Message-ID: <44aco98hdw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504071240130.3058@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> References: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504071240130.3058@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE>
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Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> 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.
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