[3793] in SIPB bug reports
xfig/transfig producing NaN in PostScript
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun May 30 13:24:14 1993
Date: Sun, 30 May 93 13:23:53 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@gza.com>
To: yandros@athena.mit.edu
Cc: bug-sipb@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Thu, 27 May 1993 06:00:46 -0400 <9305271000.AA21481@oliver.MIT.EDU>
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 06:00:46 -0400
Running xfig on a DS3100 it works fine. Running it from a maxine to
oliver I get no visual output at all, but it doesn't seem to have any
NaN's in the PS output, and it prints alright. I get the same
behavior (no visual output, PS fine, prints fine) running locally on
the rs6k. This is with version 2.1.7a protocol 2.1 with the problem2
file. For contrast, loading `problem.fig' instead of `problem2.fig'
displays the line of text at the top of the picture, but nothing else.
This is probably because the objects in the FIG file are marked with
an explicit color "black", rather than using the default color. As a
result, if you display in reverse video, you won't see them.
The solution is to change the objects so that they're using the
default color, or to run xfig with a white background.
This is not an xfig bug.
Another bug with the new version: in the file selector, if I type in a
directory into the `Current Directory' box and then rescan, things
work alright, but if I try to use the `Alternatives' box to change
directories, it tries to cd relative to the original setting in
`Current Directory' and gives you the error ``Can't change to
directory <ORIGINAL_DIRNAME>'' (unless the names happen to match, of
course). If you don't try to use the `Alternatives' box and instead
just choose an entry, it works fine.
I'll forward this to the maintainer.
jik
