Quoting whoami314@free.fr (2013-09-17 19:07:01) >> Evince can also display Postscript. For the garbled PDFs, do the >> corresponding Postscript look fine in Evince? > > Yes, the above test.ps is displayed nicely by evince (or gv, or > whatever). > When displaying tp2A_scilab_N1.ps in evince, the display is ok, but I > get some warnings: > GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return > code = -1 > Not sure whether these warnings are related with the current issue... > >> If not, this seems not a Ghostscript bug, but a TeX (or user) bug to >> me. > > Well, obviously many things could be at fault here : > - the postscript creator indeed (latex + dvips) > - ps2pdf > - the pdf viewers > Or any combination of the three :-(. > Anyway, it's just a wild guess, but the garbled evince + the error > msgs in xpdf make me suspicious about the content of these pdf files. Ok. > Btw, what would you call a user bug ? I've used this kind of tex > sources with T1 fontenc for ages without issues up to now. I wouldn't know conretely. Just notice (from afar) that TeX can be complex and some failures are - by the package maintainers of texlive at least - treated as user bugs. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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