From: Arnd B. <arn...@we...> - 2006-05-11 05:57:43
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Hi, I have a weird problem when including a sequence of PyX generated plots into LaTeX. I have put an example at http://www.physik.tu-dresden.de/~baecker/tmp/pyx_embed/pyx_embed_prob.ps When trying to display page 3 of this file with gv a longish ghostscript error messages appears, and the figure is shown corrupted. Interestingly, the corresponding file, remapped_combined.eps, displays fine with gv for me. One of the problems with this problem is that it is difficult to provide a minimal example. Any further change to the TeX file (even at completetely different places in the text) can make the problem dissappear. In order to track this down a little bit further I would very much appreciate your help: First I would be interested if it is a bug in my version of gv/ghostscript: a) does http://www.physik.tu-dresden.de/~baecker/tmp/pyx_embed/psplots/remapped_combined.eps look fine with gv? (it does for me) b) does page 3 of pyx_embed_prob.eps display without error? c) if you recreate the .ps/.pdf (see howto.txt), does the problem persist? (note that revtex4 is needed for this: \documentclass[floats,aps,showpacs,twocolumn]{revtex4} changing this to, for example \documentclass{article} let's the problem dissappear - another manifestation of the heisenbug character of the problem ;-() I am using (not sure if any of these matters): - gs -v AFPL Ghostscript 8.14 (2004-02-20) - latex -v eb2C 7.4.5) 3.14159-2.1 kpathsea version 3.4.5 - dvipdfm -v dvipdfm, version 0.13.2cy - pyx from svn: pyx.__version__ '0.8+' Any ideas are welcome, Arnd |