Ralf Stubner <ralf.stub...@web.de> writes: > The problem is simply that dvips cannot interpret the included PS > image, since it does not contain a PS parser.
Oh - the DVI format still includes uninterpreted PostScript (the included EPS figures)? Gosh. Now I come to look at xdvi's manpage I see that indeed it does seem to call things like Ghostscript when necessary. > I would therefore suggest to either close this bug or retitleit to > "dvips should parse included PS images to determin used fonts", > lowering it to 'whishlist' and tagging it as 'wontfix'. What do you > think? That seems very reasonable. Given `wontfix' at the Debian side, would you be able to pass the wishlist item upstream? (Or is that done routinely anyway?) Given that the DVI format seems capable of including PostScript, and LaTeX-with-EPS to DVI to PostScript is a common usage case of dvips, it seems bizarre for it to be so eager to attempt an optimization it can't currently actually do safely. I would put the idea in your mind of adding to the Debian dvips manpage's -j option documentation a warning that it may not recognize that characters from included diagrams are needed. I'll leave that decision up to your judgment though. (-: Thank you very much for your help, anyway. It's nice to be understanding this a bit better now. It took me quite some time to pin down the problem; if nothing else, I'm glad that Google will probably archive this discussion ready for the next confused person! And I'm okay at my end now I've added -j0 at the relevant points in my document-processing scripts. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
