Re: pslatex.trm: useless \colorgray into tex file

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 01:20 pm, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> 
>>Currently, "make tutorial" fails due to "TeX capacity exceeded".
>>
>>Reason: try
>> 	gnuplot eg7.plt
>>
>>There seems to be a bug: EPSLATEX_set_color() produces many many 
>>\colorgray{} commands into output .tex file, which are completely useless, 
>>because color for filled rectangles is set directly in .eps file.
> 
> 
> Ugh.
> It's worse than that.

Note my email from a couple days ago.  Perhaps begin by looking at this strange defined-out line of code:

#if 0
    /*  In order to make 'PS_linewidth' work properly, I need to comment
     *  this line out.  Especially in combination with the line width
     *  extension of the `set arrow` command this is necessary.
     *  Can we live with that drawback?  (JFi)
     */
    if (PS_linetype_last == linetype) return;
#endif

Again, we probably shouldn't be getting _linetype() called so often, but I don't know if that can be addressed before 4.2.

Also, could this bug have something to do with bug report:

[ 1512210 ] buffer overflow using pgnuplot

?  This says:

pgnuplot < gnuplotfile.gnuplot
crashes if gnuplotfile.gnuplot
contains a lot of postscript plots from datafiles
(in my case 20 were enough)

which sounds like the person means they are attempting to create some PostScript plot.  Maybe the system is trying to create bloated PostScript plots and is running out of buffered memory.

Dan