On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:45:24PM -0800, Paul Vojta wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:00:03PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Stefan Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > There doesn't seem to be an easy way for Xdvi to detect that it's not > > > a standalone PS file. (Paul, you know more about Postscript than I do > > > - is the problem that the PS file doesn't define any fonts? Is this > > > the way Metapost works? Does it work with dvips since the font will be > > > already present in the `main' file?) > > > > > > If there's no way for xdvi to detect/fix this font problem, maybe we > > > should switch to displaying a placeholder/bounding box for Metapost > > > files - I don't know much about Metapost either; can we assume that > > > files missing an `.(e)ps' extension are Metapost, or would we need > > > to scan all files in 'PSfile' specials for a `%%Creator: MetaPost' > > > comment? > > metapost files are not .eps, although they're very close. They require > special processing, which I haven't implemented yet. I should check what > dvips does, and mimic that.
That, or whatever pdflatex uses to iterpret metapost files. It would be great if you could fix this. Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
