On 29.07.11 00:09, Adrian wrote:
Hi Norbert,
could you care about this and push acrotex into TeX Live upstream?
According to [1] it is LPPL, hence there should be no licensing issue.
Hilmar
[1] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/acrotex
> observed behaviour:
> failure to compile, error message
> ! LaTeX Error: File `eforms.sty' not found.
>
> work-around:
> install acrotex from mirror.ctan.org into local TEXINPUTS path
>
> conclusion:
> The package itself is *not* broken (it's slightly outdated with respect
> to the current version at CTAN, but that's another matter), but it
> depends on additional software which is not available within the Debian
> packaging system.
>
> recommendation:
> Either take fancytooltips out of texlive-latex-extra or (better) include
> acrotex as well. The acrotex distribution licence is 'LaTeX Project
> Public License, either version 1.2 of this license or (at your option)
> any later version' according to the header of
> http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/acrotex/acrotex.ins
>
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries
> (latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
> output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
> error in your report.
>
> Please run your example with
> (pdf)latex -recorder ...
> (or any other program that supports -recorder) and send us the generated
> file with the extension .fls, it lists all the files loaded during
> the run and can easily explain problems induced by outdated files in
> your home directory.
>
> Don't forget to also include minimal examples of other files that are
> needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
> to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!
>
> If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
> output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
> you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
> can be found at
>
> http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)
>
> or
>
> http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)
>
> ##################################
> minimal input file
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \usepackage{xcolor}% either xcolor or color required by fancytooltips
> \usepackage[filename=tooltips]{fancytooltips}
>
> \begin{document}
> \end{document}
>
> ##################################
> other files
>
> % the complete output of pdflatex with the above minimal example as input
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> entering extended mode
> (./ttt.tex
> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
> yphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty
> (/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def))
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/fancytooltips/fancytooltips.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ms/everyshi.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)))
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex))
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/eso-pic/eso-pic.sty)
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `eforms.sty' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>
> Enter file name: x
>
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