Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:55:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504081653250.16997@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> In-Reply-To: <44aco98hdw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504071240130.3058@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <44aco98hdw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > 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. OK, so it is a file. I wasn't sure, and didn't think about "locate" it! bash-2.05b$ locate pdfwrite /usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/pdfwrite.desktop /usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/pdfwrite.xml /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu/work/ghostscript-7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps Apparantly it's there. Now why it's used I have no idea. Of course, I now have no idea which ports I have installed, deleted and reinstalled again )or in what order). /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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