From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 13: 9:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB9037B41C for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:09:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.20.224.204] (helo=mrvdom00.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 16PrsB-0005lU-00; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:08:59 +0100 Received: from [217.1.114.243] (helo=pD90172F3.dip.t-dialin.net) by mrvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 16PrsA-0001FF-00; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:08:59 +0100 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:09:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Subject: Re: Cannot print In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020113215731.N423-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > #==================================# # Peter Ulrich Kruppa # # Wuppertal - Germany # # www.pukruppa.de - www.2000d.de # #==================================# To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message