From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Dec 7 8:48:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD6037B401; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:48:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2250A43EA9; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ziggy@panix.com) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2778898286; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:48:00 -0500 (EST) Received: (from ziggy@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.6/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id gB7Gm0I15314; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:48:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:48:00 -0500 From: Adam Turoff To: Nik Clayton Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Warren Block , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdftex problems? Message-ID: <20021207164800.GA13540@panix.com> References: <20021206114650.GA16236@gothmog.gr> <20021206165957.GA26153@panix.com> <20021207160706.GU96173@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021207160706.GU96173@clan.nothing-going-on.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:07:06PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > I've tried that. The problem I ran into was that no matter how high I > pushed the numbers, pdftex always bombed out in the same place. This > was explained by someone else, on another mailing list (I think, this > was a year or so ago, IIRC) that I was running in to other, hard coded > limits in TeX. So we switched to using ps2pdf for the Handbook. > > I would love to be proved wrong about this. Hm. I don't know what I'm doing differently. I'm running 4.7-RELEASE-p2, and I've installed tetex within the last month along with docproj-jadetex and hugelatex. I did a 'make pdf' in /usr/doc within the last week. With the configuration in place on my system, I got a series of failures that I fixed by gradually replacing the configuration options with the ones found in ports/jadetex/files: hash_extra = 60000 pool_size = 1000000 max_strings = 70000 save_size = 10000 I'm a bit of a tex newbie, so I don't fully understand why this would work for me, and not for you. I also don't understand why these values would not have been updated in texmf.cnf after the jadetex install... In any case, if I can help identify a way to migrate away from ps2pdf, let me know. Z. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message