Bug#267772: missing file in advi package

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:22:59PM +0100, Pierre Letouzey wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
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> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:51:18PM +0200, Pierre Letouzey wrote:
> > >
> > > Package: advi
> > > Version: 1.5.2+cvs-2004.07.27-2
> > >
> > > Compared with package 1.4.0-7, this new advi package lacks (at least)
> > > the file /usr/lib/advi/advi.pro which is used for postscript rendering.
> >
> > Well, this file seems to be also absent from the 1.6 release, so i don't know
> > what happened here. Can you investigate if this is still present in the
> > upstream advi package (i think not, but may be mistaken).
> >
> > There may be another way of doing postscript rendering in advi 1.6, don't
> > know.
> >
> > Friendly,
> >
> > Sven Luther
> >
> >
> 
> Hello
> 
> I confirm indeed that this advi.pro has been removed from advi's CVS
> somewhere between 1.4 and 1.5. So this bug isn't debian-related after
> all... Sorry for the uneccessary bug-report. I will now investigate why
> the advi team has removed it and double-check whether it is really
> usefull for my pstricks animations.

The INSTALL says :

To display postscript based drawings by PsTricks macro package,
you need ghostscript (http://www.ghostscript.com). You need
the version 6.52 or later for the correct synchronization of
drawing of the TeX glyphs and postscript graphics.

so i suppose no external file is needed anymore. please keep me informed of
the progress of this.

Friendly,

Sven Luther