[3929] in SIPB bug reports
dvips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eddietwo@athena.mit.edu)
Fri Jul 16 13:44:09 1993
From: eddietwo@athena.mit.edu
To: bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu, bert@athena.mit.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 11:40:46 EDT
>The reason for the error is that your configuration files contain the
>line "@ letterSize 8.5in 11in", and the version of dvips we currently
>suppport (5.47) does not understand the "@" papersize directives. We
>are considering moving to version 5.495, which does.
I had no such @ lines in any of my configuration files. I checked
before sending the bug report. Sorry for providing insufficient
information however. The problem is in /mit/sipb/lib/tex/ps/config.ps:
[blah, blah, blah]
*
* There is some redundancy in the following comments; that is to
* get things to work both on the NeXT and on other printers.
*
*@ a4size 210mm 297mm
*@+ %%PaperSize: a4
@ letterSize 8.5in 11in
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If these lines are the problem, then
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! perhaps they should go bye bye
@ letter 8.5in 11in
@+ %%PaperSize: Letter
@+ %%BeginPaperSize: Letter
@+ letter
@+ %%EndPaperSize
@ legal 8.5in 14in
@+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: Legal
@+ %%PaperSize: Legal
[blah, blah, blah]
I had done exactly what you suggested yesterday: put a new
config.ps in my directory with all the @ lines removed.
% printenv TEXCONFIG
.:/mit/eddietwo/tex/ps:/mit/sipb/lib/tex/ps
% cat ~/.dvipsrc
H /mit/eddietwo/ps/Fonts:/mit/sipb/lib/tex/ps-new:/mit/eddietwo/tex/ps
p /mit/eddietwo/tex/ps/psfonts.map
W Fuck! Fuck!
V /mit/eddietwo/tex/fonts/vf:/mit/sipb/lib/tex/fonts/vf:
o !lpr
m 300000
D 600
%
>In short: for the time being, you lose; I would suggest commenting out
>all lines starting with "@" in your configuration files.
may i suggest the same thing back to you? :)
love, ed.
