On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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