Bug#428014: introduced in 3.0-19

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com> wrote:

> This bug was introduced in 3.0-19:
>
>  tetex-base  (3.0-19) unstable; urgency=medium
>  ...
>    * Add a patch for dvipdfm's config file that allows proper inclusion of
>      really large Postscript files, as reported by Thomas Esser and Laurent
>      Siebenmann  on the TeXLive list.  Thanks to Heiko Oberdiek for the
>      patch.  [frank]
>
> I tested Dan's suggestion: replacing -dEPSCrop in the config file with
>
>   -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=500000 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=500000
>
> solves the problem for me.

I think the problem is that we cannot make everybody happy - there is no
default which would work without problems in all cases.

This is a configuration file; maybe the right fix is to just document
this (in the file and in some README) and leave the choice to the user.

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