Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:09:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cannot print Message-ID: <20020113215731.N423-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <p05101205b867a1851e23@[128.113.24.47]>
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In the meantime someone on the apsfilter (which I use for
printing) mailing list gave me an important hint.
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 11:09 AM +0000 1/13/02, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >when I try to print or open a Postscript-file produced by Mupad I
> >get messages like this:
> >
> > ---------------------------
> >Error: /undefined in 8,00
^
He saw this comma. There should be dot.
In Germany we use decimal commas instead of dots. Somehow all
decimals in the ps code were written with commas. I reset my
enviroment variable LANG to the english default and now
everything works well.
I think I will have to write to the Mupad development team.
Regards
Uli.
> > ...
> >Current allocation mode is local
> >Current file position is 119
> >GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> >
> > -------------------------------
>
> You might want to try printing directly to a postscript printer, if
> you can. That way you could tell whether the problem is Mupad
> producing bad postscript, or whether Ghostscript is getting the
> error due to bugs in Ghostscript itself.
>
> >The postscript file I would like to print starts with
> >
> >%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
> >%%Title:
> >%%Creator:
> >%%Orientation:
> >%%BoundingBox: 0 0 686 486
>
> This is an EPS file, and as such it is expected to be included in
> some other postscript file. It might be that the encapsulation
> (the 'E' in 'EPS') is doing something which confuses Ghostscript.
>
> I realize this does not really help you with your problem, but it is
> about the most that I could think to suggest.
>
> --
> Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
>
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