Bug#412584: texlive-pstricks: pst-map2dII causes Ghostscript ERROR: /invalidfileaccess in --file--

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Arnout Boelens <aboelens@engin.umass.edu> wrote:

> If I move everything from ../dataII to ./data (and remove the
> \psset{path=../dataII}) it works here. The error shows up when I perform ps2pdf.
> However, I can neither view the dvi file nor the ps file, because they seem
> corrupted.
[...]
>> Is this *REALLY* the input file you used?
>> 
>> Where did you get the pst-map2dII.{tex,sty} from?

tetex-extra installs it in the proper place, texlive-pstricks (at least
in TL 2005 puts them in /usr/share/doc/.

>> Frank and teTeX guys here, can you explain all this? I am stymed. I have
>> no idea. On my pure texlive system I can compile the document but
>> viewing it in gv breaks...

Hm, I cannot reproduce any error with texlive alone.  This is what I
did, using data and LaTeX file from
http://people.debian.org/~frank/pst-geo-map.tar.gz (still uploading):

- log into a clean pbuilder chroot (only build-essential packages
  installed

- apt-get install texlive-pstricks texlive-latex-base

- mkdir -p /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/pst-geo/

- cp /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/generic/pst-geo/pst-map2dII.* /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/pst-geo/

- gunzip /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/pst-geo/pst-map2dII.tex.gz 

- mktexlsr /usr/local/share/texmf/

- copy the tarball into the chroot

- tar -xzf pst-geo-map.tar.gz

- cd pst-geo-map

- latex mapplot.tex

root@riesling:/pst-geo-map# dvips mapplot.dvi 
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2007.02.28:1212' -> mapplot.ps
<tex.pro><pstricks.pro><pst-dots.pro><pst-node.pro><texps.pro><special.pro>
<color.pro>. <cmr12.pfb>[1] 
root@riesling:/pst-geo-map# 

- apt-get install gs-gpl

# time ps2pdf mapplot.ps 

real	0m30.760s
user	0m28.550s
sys	0m0.236s

I can view the PDF and PS files fine from outside the chroot, so
everything is included.  If I create the DVI on my normal system, even
viewing it in xdvi works fine (although it's damn slow).


Next, I try the same in a teTeX based system:

- log into a sid chroot

- apt-get install tetex-extra gs-gpl texlive-pstricks

- repeat the file moving, mktexlsr, latex, dvips, ps2pdf:

Same result (except that it takes 32 seconds...)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)