Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:35:53 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org, hrs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building a local copy of www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051010093553.GI99170@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20051008232727.GB223@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20051008100325.GY72352@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20051008110155.GW99170@submonkey.net> <20051008232727.GB223@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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--FYos7FMnk2wAe7eG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:27:27AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I found another problem triggered by a local change I've made: I have > my troffrc set for A4 paper (.pl 29.7c) and this causes > doc/share/images/books/handbook/advanced-networking/net-routing.eps to > fail with reports of "blank page!!" and "no bounding box". The > problem appears to be that "groff net-routing.pic" results in a small > picture right at the top of the page - apparently above the 11" point. > When "-sPAPERSIZE=3Dletter" is specified during the EPS conversion, the > picture is cropped off, resulting in a blank page. Is there a > particular reason for explicitly specifying the papersize in the EPS > conversion? The ps2epsi script doesn't bother doing this. The commit log for that line of doc.images.mk says: revision 1.26 date: 2003/12/30 21:41:17; author: hrs; state: Exp; lines: +32 -8 Fix problems when ghostscript with A4=3Dyes is used. I remember those problems with ghostscript, but the problems you're describing presumably weren't apparent. If you try removing that argument from doc.images.mk, do you end up with sensible output? Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --FYos7FMnk2wAe7eG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDSjX5ocfcwTS3JF8RAsMyAJ0XrbvRNATUs3+i1gXAjl4HpaOFWgCgnNVO 44NxqFeopdmdl8ZW5q0O+EI= =Cx4L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FYos7FMnk2wAe7eG--
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