Bug#465107: texlive-metapost: missing supp-pdf.tex and supp-mis.tex
notfound 465107 2007.dfsg.1-2
thanks
Hi all,
On So, 10 Feb 2008, giuseppe bonacci wrote:
> second pdflatex invocation died with a "! Undefined control sequence
> \convertMPtoPDF" error.
This is a bug in the 2005 version which we will and cannot fix, it is
not a security update.
In the 2007 version the following error is issued:
Cannot convert #1 from MPS to PDF.
The support file `supp-pdf.tex' is missing
The graphics driver for pdfTeX needs `supp-pdf.tex' (and
`supp-mis.tex')
to convert MP to PDF.
These files are part of ConTeXt and can also be found here:
CTAN:macros/pdftex/graphics/supp-pdf.tex
CTAN:macros/pdftex/graphics/supp-mis.tex
You'll get more errors if you'll continue now.
supp-pdf.tex is maintained in context and shipped there. If you want
automatic conversion you either have to install context, or copy the
file. Or you do manual mp2pdf.
> texlive-metapost does not ship the above files. However,
> gzipped copies of the missing files are present in
> /usr/share/doc/texlive-base-bin/pdftex/manual/samplepdf (doc tree of
> texlive-base-bin), and copying them in ~/texmf/tex solves the problem.
These are files used for generating the documentation and are not the
latest release of these files.
>
> What about moving the files to their proper place?
They are at their proper place.
> By the way, texlive-context has both files, although I believe
> texlive-metapost should not depend on (nor recommend) texlive-context.
That is right, and the error message above states that if you want that
you need to install context. But this is only valid for 2007.
TL 2005 will rest as is, it is in stable and not a serious problem to be
fixed by security updates.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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