Re: [Pyx-user] use on windows

[Joerg L. <jo...@us...>]

On 20.09.03, Brett Calcott wrote:
> - I get a warning from gsview:  The number of begin and end comments do not
> match.

Funny... In fact, they do not match (because there is no BeginComments)
but IMHO this is according to the DSC specs...

> - I get files left around like xxxxxxxx.dvicopy.

That should not be the case. Maybe André wants to look into this.

> However, it doesn't work with integral.py
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "integral.py", line 30, in ?
>     g.writetofile("integral")
>   File "c:\python23\Lib\site-packages\pyx\canvas.py", line 943, in
> writetofile
>     pritem.write(file)
>   File "c:\python23\Lib\site-packages\pyx\prolog.py", line 123, in write
>     raise RuntimeError("cannot find type 1 font %s" % self.filename)
> RuntimeError: cannot find type 1 font cmex10.pfb
> 
> X:\pyx\examples\graphs>find c:\miktex -name cmex10.pfb
> c:\miktex\texmf\fonts\type1\bluesky\cm\cmex10.pfb
> 
> X:\pyx\examples\graphs>kpsewhich cmex10.pfb
> 
> kspewhich doesn't report anything for that file -- I guess it should.

Yes, it should. Maybe you have to rebuild your ls-R database?

> Lastly, dvicopy prints a fair bit to stdout about what it is doing that
> users probably don't want to see.

That's already on the TODO list.

> ps. When this is ironed out, do you want some diffs to the code so that it
> detects Miktex and does the right thing?

Yes, of course, please send us the diffs.

        Jörg