Bug#267772: missing file in advi package
> > 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
>
Ok, I've just understood my problem: the dvi files compiled long ago with
an old advi.sty are _not_ compatible with a new advi. And recompiling with
the newest advi.sty solves the issue.
More precisely, I was amazed to see that advi 1.6.0-2 installed today was
still complaining on my laptop about a missing advi.pro. Even without any
mention of this filename in advi source code! After some code reading, it
turned out that the name of these postscript prologue files (.pro) are in
fact read in some part of the dvi. And my test dvi containing some
pstricks was an old one, not recompiled since advi 1.4.0, hence asking for
the old prologue name...
Sorry for the annoyance, I should have tried to rebuild the dvi before
complaining.
Pierre Letouzey
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