[5686] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xfig3.1 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Wed Dec 6 16:17:42 1995
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:17:11 -0500
To: simonv@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[5680] in SIPB bug reports"
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hello. You wrote:
I often import eps files mostly generated by gnuplot or by ps2epsi.
xfig2.1 has no problem displaying the eps object on screen. xfig3.1,
however, gives the `unknown image format' error in the console window
for exactly the same conditions. I verified this again by running
xfig.old and importing an eps file generated by ps2epsi.
Fixed.
The problem was that xfig was running gs to display the EPS file. (gs
is Ghostscript, found in the gnu locker.) gs was failing because it
is not built with "gif8" support, which is what xfig needs. I fixed
this by recompiling xfig without the "use gs" option. When it doesn't
use gs, xfig only knows how to display EPS files with a very specific
style of comments. ps2epsi generates these comments, so you probably
won't have any problem. If you use an EPS file generated some other
way, xfig may fail to display it in the on-screen preview, but it will
still show up in the printout.
Thanks for the bug report and sorry for the inconvenience.
-Sal Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
for the MIT SIPB
P.S. The fixed version of xfig won't be available until the sipb
locker is released tomorrow morning.
