<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tom wrote me privately about this a couple of days ago. I can confirm the</div><div class="">problem, although I suspect the details are slightly different.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a 200 page document with a great many eps illustrations. After</div><div class="">the first few illustrations, SOME of the remaining illustrations show pieces</div><div class="">of previous illustrations “in the background”, but other illustrations still</div><div class="">display correctly. (The majority of illustrations are broken.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I suspect the cause might be illustrations with transparency. If a buffer</div><div class="">for graphics isn’t cleared before rendering, and the illustration rendered has</div><div class="">transparent sections, then the old illustration could show through.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my test document, eps illustrations created from a tiff scan seem</div><div class="">to work. Eps documents created with Mathematica almost always</div><div class="">have the problem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I haven’t done enough experiments to know for sure. Tom told me that</div><div class="">the problem also appears on a Linux machine. Since Linux users would</div><div class="">be more likely to use xdvi, it is possible that this is not a bug but rather</div><div class="">a deliberate change. I haven’t had time to do an internet search.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TeX Live 2016 and MacTeX-2016 are in the final stages of production.</div><div class="">I do not intend to spend much time on this problem because I suspect</div><div class="">that very very few Mac people use xdvi. But if anyone discovers a</div><div class="">cause, perhaps a flag needed when compiling ghostscript, please</div><div class="">let me know quickly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 5, 2016, at 10:00 PM, tkiffe <<a href="mailto:tkiffe@math.tamu.edu" class="">tkiffe@math.tamu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Xdvi and ghostscript don’t work together correctly when previewing eps graphics in a dvi file. <div class="">After the first graphic is displayed all subsequent graphics include parts of previous graphics.</div><div class="">This behavior occurs in OS X 10.5 - 10.10. (I wasn’t able to test it in 10.11 because the 2016</div><div class="">pretest file wouldn’t open and hence I couldn’t install the pretest there.) I think the problem</div><div class="">arises from ghostscript rather than xdvi. If I replace gs 9.19, which is part of 2016, with gs 9.10</div><div class="">graphics display correctly in xdvi. I see the same behavior with mactex 2015 (gs 9.16).</div><div class="">Everything works correctly with mactex 2014 (gs9.10) and mactex 2013 (gs.9.07).</div><div class="">The problem seems to lie with gs versions later than 9.10.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A sample file can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.math.tamu.edu/~tkiffe/tex/2016_xdvi_test.tar.gz" class="">www.math.tamu.edu/~tkiffe/tex/2016_xdvi_test.tar.gz</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/" class="">https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/</a><br class="">List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" class="">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br class=""> <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" class="">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br class="">List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>