Bug#428014: tetex-base: bad dvipdfm/config/config; doesn't handle shifted .eps files
Package: tetex-base
Version: 3.0.dfsg.2-2
Severity: normal
dvipdfm doesn't correctly handle an eps figure whose lower-left corner
is not at (0,0). In some cases, the resulting figure appears in the
document, but is shifted. In other cases, it doesn't appear at all.
Such figures are produced by lots of software, e.g. gnuplot.
I've corresponded with the dvipdfm author, and he says the problem is
the -dEPSCrop option passed to gs according to the dvipdfm/config/config
file. This option causes gs to shift the bounding box to (0,0) in the
resulting pdf file, which dvipdfm can't deal with. He says to replace
this with -sPAPERSIZE=a0 which is the lesser of two evils: it can
cause very large figures to be cropped, but this should be much less
likely to occur than figures with shifted lower-left corner. In fact,
using -sPAPERSIZE=jisb0 should even be better. I've tested this, and
it solves all of the problems I've been having with eps figures.
I haven't tested the following, but maybe
-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=w -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=h
where w and h are very large numbers would be even better?
Dan
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root users 1170 Jun 7 07:39 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 225 Dec 10 21:53 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Nov 30 2006 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.1.up.swsusp.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii tex-common 0.33 Common infrastructure for using an
ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dialog 1.0-20050306-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkpathsea4 3.0-21 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5-4.1 PDF rendering library
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor
ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii whiptail 0.52.2-8 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii tetex-bin 3.0-18 The teTeX binary files
ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information:
tetex-base/olddat: true
tetex-base/fmtutil-failed:
* tetex-bin/cnf_name:
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
tetex-base/oldcfg: true
* tetex-base/oldupdm: true
tetex-base/updmap-failed:
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