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Subject: Re: ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange
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Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> writes:

> After using these tools, installing the epsmegre port (and some
> others) and then removing the latter again, the former have stopped
> working!
> 
> bash-2.05b$ ps2pdf elcFront.ps
> Unknown device: pdfwrite
> bash-2.05b$ ps2epsi elcFront.ps
> Unknown device: bit
> bash-2.05b$
> 
> How come those devices they ask for have dissapeared, or why have they
> suddenly developed a need for them?
> 
> Oddly enough, ps2epsi seems to produce the correct output, regardless
> of the error - ps2pdf not so.
> 
> I have reinstalled ghostscript-gnu, but it didn't solve the problem.
> 
> Are there some port around that messed with them in a way that didn't
> showed up untill I pkg_delete'd those ports?

Possibly.  That would be a bug in whichever port did that, and would
be worth fixing, but we'd have to identify the bug first.  

I think the file in question would be:
    $ locate pdfwrite
    /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps
    $ 
so check to see if you have it.