From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Dec 7 9:32: 1 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 17AE337B401; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from Kain.sumuk.de (Kain.sumuk.de [213.221.86.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8840C43E4A; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:31:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vincent@sumuk.de) Received: from Moses.earth.sol (Moses.earth.sol [192.168.1.1]) by Kain.sumuk.de (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB7HVZWi066650; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:31:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent@sumuk.de) Received: from Moses.earth.sol (localhost.earth.sol [127.0.0.1]) by Moses.earth.sol (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB7HVXLS016625; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:31:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent@Moses.earth.sol) Received: (from vincent@localhost) by Moses.earth.sol (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gB7HVUrM016624; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:31:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:31:29 +0100 From: Martin Heinen To: Adam Turoff Cc: Nik Clayton , Giorgos Keramidas , Warren Block , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pdftex problems? Message-ID: <20021207183129.A16396@sumuk.de> Reply-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021206114650.GA16236@gothmog.gr> <20021206165957.GA26153@panix.com> <20021207160706.GU96173@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20021207164800.GA13540@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021207164800.GA13540@panix.com>; from ziggy@panix.com on Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:48:00AM -0500 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 11:48:00AM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > 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. We recently hit the limit when building the German handbook. Did you generate the index? Building the (German) handbook without the index "make FORMATS=pdf" works fine but building the handbook with "make GEN_INDEX=true FORMATS=pdf" dies. I posted the error message on the German translators list: http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/archive/de-bsd-translators.200211/0173.html I doubled "max_strings" in texmf.cnf but this didn't fix the problem. -- Marxpitn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message