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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: dvips produces bad postcript
- From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 13:07:08 +1000
- Message-id: <20000509030708.9B24830413@snoopy.apana.org.au>
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.6-6
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/dvips
(or perhaps I am wrong, it might be gs's fault).
Use the following latex code (a.tex):
(currently needs tetex-nonfree for seminar.sty).
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% $Id: report.tex,v 1.3 1999/09/12 10:33:56 bam Exp $
\documentclass[a4,semlayer,semcolor] {seminar}
\input{seminar.bug}
\input{seminar.bg2}
\title{Crashing Tutorial}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}
What is Crashing?
\begin{itemize}
\item Crashing who you are to somebody else.
\end{itemize}
\overlay{1}
Why is crashing important?
\end{slide}
Crashing is \textit{not} the same as collisions. Here are some
examples why this is the case:
\end{document}
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Compile with:
latex a.tex && dvips a.dvi -o a.ps
view under X-Windows with:
>gs a.ps
GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17)
Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
Error: /undefined in BOL
Operand stack:
(all)
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 2 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 5 5 %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
--dict:776/809-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:55/200-- --dict:115/300-- --dict:75/200--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 38348
I can send you the postscript code if required.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux snoopy 2.2.14 #1 Sat Feb 12 07:49:10 EST 2000 i686
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debianutils 1.13.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg-perl 0.1-3.0 Perl interface modules for dpkg
ii ed 0.2-18 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpng2 1.0.5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-10 The GNU stdc++ library
ii tetex-base 1.0-10 basic teTeX library files
ii tetex-lib 1.0.6-6 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii xlib6g 3.3.6-6 shared libraries required by X cli
ii zlib1g [libz1] 1:1.1.3-5 compression library - runtime
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