Bug#430976: texlive-metapost: symbols don't appear when using metapost
Hi, Florent.
On Jun 28 2007, Florent Rougon wrote:
> Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:
> > For compiling the figure below, I use the following sequence of commands:
> >
> > mpost metapost-fail
> > a2ping metapost.1
> > xpdf metapost.pdf
Sorry for the use of wrong names. They should all have been
metapost-fail in the examples above.
> Are you sure this is a MetaPost problem?
No, I'm not exactly sure if the problem is a metapost problem.
> Here, with texlive-metapost version 2007-12.np.etch.1, including the
> compiled figure in a LaTeX document processed by pdfTeX works fine.
Which steps did you actually use? I'm curious. I tried to grab
metapost-fail.pdf and include it with \includegraphics (with the
graphicx package loaded) and I got a blank place where the square should
have appeared, unfortunately. :-(
> So, I'd say the problem is in the conversion by a2ping, not in
> MetaPost.
What exactly did you use to convert the picture to PDF? If I remember
correctly, epstopdf crashes with a problem of ghostscript.
Oh, it just occurred me that the versions of ghostscript that we may be
using may be the culprit.
rbrito@dumont:~$ dpkg --status gs-esp | grep -i version:
Version: 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1
rbrito@dumont:~$
But I am not exactly shure, unfortunately. Any light shed on this issue
would be *quite* welcome.
Thank you very much, Rogério Brito.
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