Re: [MiKTeX] Yap 2.5 eps problem

[Vladimir Y. <vo...@po...>]

gn...@gm... wrote:
> On 1/8/07, Ulrike Fischer <li...@ni...> wrote:
>
>   
>> am Montag, 8. Januar 2007 um 00:37 schrieb Vladimir Yurovsky:
>>
>>     
>>> Yap can't show some eps figure, even when render method is dvips. Yap
>>> 2.4 does not have these problems. I found that GhostScript 8.54, which
>>> is used in Yap 2.5, don't show these figures, although GhostScript 8.15
>>> (used in Yap 2.4) works fine. How can I change version of GhostScript in
>>> Yap?
>>>       
>> You can't. Repair the eps.
>>     
>
> You can sometimes repair an EPS file by creating PDF and saving as
> EPS, but you also have the option of switching to a PDF workflow
> (convert all "EPS" to "PDF" and use pdflatex).
>
> There are several reasons a file that worked in older GS versions will
> fail in a current version:
>
> 1.  missing or changed font (e.g., newer font uses different names for
> certain glyphs)
> 2.  changes in the way GS is called (e.g., -dSAFER)
> 3.  changes in GS -- whle there may be bugs, most changes are done
> with the realization that there are tradeoffs such as problems with
> legacy files.  Security considerations, in particular, often require
> stricter adherence to PS standards to block the use of malicious PS
> files.
>
> Many files with .EPS extensions, including some generated by certain
> well-known, expensive, graphics packages, do not meet the definition
> of EPS (and the package authors seem unwilling to fix problems even
> when presented with examples of bad files together with verbatim
> quotes from the relevant section of the PostScript ref. Manual (Red
> Book) showing that their output breaks the rules.  Unless you have a
> tightly controlled and trusted method for creating EPS files, PDF is
> much more robust.  You can create valid PDF from all sorts of files
> that aren't valid EPS.   You can use different tools and setting for
> each figure rather than depending on one tool and global settings for
> every image in a document.
>
>   
Thank you very much. It works. I created pdf by GSVIEW with GhostScript 
8.15 (unlike Yap, it allows to choose GhostScript version), and 
converted it to ps using pdf2ps from MIkTeX 2.5.