From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 14:55:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631CD16A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:55:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from limicola.its.uu.se (limicola.its.UU.SE [130.238.7.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6DF43D31 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:55:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ante@Update.UU.SE) Received: by limicola.its.uu.se (Postfix, from userid 205) id EDE984B10; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:55:20 +0200 (MSZ) Received: from limicola.its.uu.se(127.0.0.1) by limicola.its.uu.se via virus-scan id s208906; Fri, 8 Apr 05 16:55:18 +0200 Received: from Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE [130.238.19.25]) by limicola.its.uu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDE44B10; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:55:18 +0200 (MSZ) Received: by Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Postfix, from userid 30086) id 5D83138013; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:55:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BACB5C002; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:55:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:55:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Davour To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <44aco98hdw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: References: <44aco98hdw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps2pdf and ps2epsi behaving strange X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:55:23 -0000 On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Andreas Davour 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. OK, so it is a file. I wasn't sure, and didn't think about "locate" it! bash-2.05b$ locate pdfwrite /usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/pdfwrite.desktop /usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/pdfwrite.xml /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu/work/ghostscript-7.07/lib/pdfwrite.ps Apparantly it's there. Now why it's used I have no idea. Of course, I now have no idea which ports I have installed, deleted and reinstalled again )or in what order). /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?