-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:21:37 -0700, Greg Shenaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> I don't know if this is the right place to direct this problem. I Hi Greg, maybe it's the good place if you use the GNU version of ghostscript ;) > have a manuscript that I format with groff -e -ms, that has an > inline equation using the eqn "sqrt" operator. When I format the > manuscript to postscript, and look at it (with gv) or print it on a > postscript printer, the square-root radical comes out perfectly. > However, when I use ps2pdf to "distill" the postscript to pdf, it is > messed up: the equation starts OK, the √ seems ok, but the line over > the contents of the radical begins on top of the radical. (When I use > Adobe or pstopdf, I get even worse errors with this.) It appears to > be an interaction between how groff generates the postscript code and > how the pdf distillers interpret it. Since the groff-generated > postscript prints correctly, I'm assuming that it's mostly a > gs/ps2pdf problem. > > I am using OSX 10.4.10 (macports), groff 1.19.2_1, and ghostscript > 8.54_0. Have you the possibility to upgrade your ghostscript version ? For GNU one the 8.56.0 is out since montes now and the GPL version is 8.57 since may of 2007. > > For the moment, I've used a little algebra and rewritten the > relevant section of my manuscript in such a way as to avoid the > square root, but it would be really great if someone could take a > look at this for future purposes. I've attached a short example in > postscript along with the corresponding output of ps2pdf. They don't receive any sample, can you resend please ? Or put this files on a public place to download ? > > Thanks, > Greg Shenaut > Thanks for your report. Regards. Didier LINK - -- Didier Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clé GPG : 75BAC9EE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGpccJkyPwinW6ye4RAoVbAJ4vuQawQeD/ZTOy+snKunW1nM4fIgCgigU6 EkNdMbdpC7bXEtqLi8BlyOE= =pg9L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
