Hi Guiseppe,
On 8 April 2005 at 17:53, giuseppe bonacci wrote:
| Package: gsl-doc-pdf
| Version: 1.6-1
| Severity: minor
|
|
| /usr/share/doc/gsl-doc-pdf/gsl-ref.pdf.gz lacks some of the pictures
| (see e.g. page 194)
Yes, the pdf docs were always a bit of a hack. I added these at the request
of another bug reporter who (correctly) stated that (IIRC) the pdf is
searchable, has a table of contents (the thumbnails) etc pp.
And while use upstream's Makefile for that, I need a clumsy hack for the
pictures:
cd doc && \
for i in *.eps; do \
echo Converting $$i to pdf... && epstopdf $$i ; \
done && $(MAKE) pdf
I think this always failed on this particular chart.
| as far as I can tell, that file is generated from the texinfo file by
| 'texi2dvi --pdf', which in turn calls pdftex to format the resulting
| TeX stream.
|
| some of the pictures included have been generated by gnuplot as postscript
| specials embedded in tex code ---see e.g., rand-gaussian-tail.tex--- and
| pdftex is unhappy with "Non-PDF specials": the tex part is formatted,
| the postscript part is ignored.
|
| maybe it could be wise to modify doc/Makefile* in order to have the pdf
| file depend on the ps file, and use ps2pdf to generate the former from
| the latter. at least, going through the PS works for me.
I haven't played with ps2pdf in a while, but usually found pdflatex et al to
be _much_ superior. ps2pdf ends up with bitmaps, doesn't it?
So I don't really have a solution for this one. But I'll cc this to both Bas
who offered help with the package -- any idea, Bas? -- and to Brian Gough
from the GSL team as a heads-up.
Best regards, Dirk
|
| best regards
| g.b.
|
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