Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:48:00 -0500 From: Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdftex problems? Message-ID: <20021207164800.GA13540@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20021207160706.GU96173@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212052121330.18329-100000@wonkity.com> <20021206114650.GA16236@gothmog.gr> <20021206165957.GA26153@panix.com> <20021207160706.GU96173@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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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.
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