<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This is due to a licensing issue that recently came to light;</span><div style="font-size:12.8px">psfig licenses are incompatible with the GPL, and so much</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">of the other software is GPL. It's really too bad.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">But yes, <span class="gmail-il">startTexFig</span> is gone, and so is, to my knowledge,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">all of psfig.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The only solution I have is to move away from psfig.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I guess someone could reimplement *something* but</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">no one has stepped up.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-tom</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Rolf Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.turner@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">r.turner@auckland.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I recently "upgraded" my system. Now I cannot create a pdf file from a LaTeX document which previously caused no trouble. If I take an "old"<br>
file "<a href="http://talk.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">talk.ps</a>" which was created (in the dim distant past) by "dvips talk" (after "talk.dvi" was created by running "latex talk" on "talk.tex" I can do<br>
<br>
ps2pdf <a href="http://talk.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">talk.ps</a><br>
<br>
and get a no-problem pdf file, talk.pdf.<br>
<br>
However if I do<br>
<br>
dvips talk # Runs without generating any error messages.<br>
ps2pdf <a href="http://talk.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">talk.ps</a><br>
<br>
I get an error:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Operand stack:<br>
<br>
Execution stack:<br>
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1977 1 3 %oparray_pop 1976 1 3 %oparray_pop 1960 1 3 %oparray_pop 1852 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--<br>
Dictionary stack:<br>
--dict:1198/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:119/200(L)-- --dict:196/300(L)-- --dict:118/200(L)--<br>
Current allocation mode is local<br>
Last OS error: No such file or directory<br>
Current file position is 444444<br>
GPL Ghostscript 9.18: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
If I rename the old ("working") <a href="http://talk.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">talk.ps</a> file, call it <a href="http://oldtalk.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">oldtalk.ps</a>, run<br>
<br>
diff <a href="http://talk.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">talk.ps</a> <a href="http://oldtalk.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">oldtalk.ps</a><br>
<br>
I get a huge (235 line) output, which means essentially nothing to me. I have attached this file, in case it means something to *somebody*.<br>
<br>
I would appreciate it if someone could point me to a remedy for this problem. I need to produce a *new* talk, on a different topic, whence<br>
I cannot just use the old "<a href="http://talk.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">talk.ps</a>".<br>
<br>
To forestall questions on the issue: The talk is generated using the<br>
powerdot document class which does not seem to play nicely with pdflatex. So I cannot just do "pdflatex talk". Psigh!<br>
<br>
Thanks for any useful ideas.<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<br>
Rolf Turner<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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