[fptex] fpTeX 0.7, (included) ghostscript, and Gsview -- problems

[Jacques MAROT]

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Hello I'm Jacques MAROT
E-Mail : Jacques.marot at wanadoo.fr
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fabrice Popineau" <Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr>
To: <istoyanov at freenet.de>
Cc: <fptex at tug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [fptex] fpTeX 0.7, (included) ghostscript, and Gsview -- 
problems


>
> > Dear fpTeX-list members, I only recently discovered the beauty and
> > power of LaTeX, and herewith I would like to draw your attention to a
> > problem I doscovered lately.
>
> > I have a fpTeX 0.7 (generic full + xemtex support tools) installation
> > (under Windows 2000 Pro) and noticed that it contains Ghostscript
> > 7.07. Since I started to use intensively the EPS graphics file-format
> > I needed an previewer and installed Gsview 4.4, but when I try to open
> > a (E)PS or PDF file, the application (Gsview) chrashes.
>
> Yes, I have seen that. I will try to fix it on the gs side, and I will
> provide a gsview that doesn't crash (I compiled my one one, so I didn't
> hit the problem until it was too late for texlive 2003).
>
> > To overcome this problem I installed Ghostscript 8.11 and this problem
> > disappeared, but another one became apparent when I tried to convert a
> > LaTeX file into HTML using the TeX4ht translator.
>
I convert my files formulas in gif files with
XNview: http://www.xnview.com
Using the followimg  lines in tex4ht.env :

% ======== Using Xnview-Nconvert ========
Gdvips -D 100 -y 2000 -E  -f %%1 -pp %%2  > tex4ht.eps
GC:\Progra~1\XnView\nconvert -out gif  -colors 32 -dpi 100 -transparent 0 -o
 %%3 tex4ht.eps
GDEL tex4ht.eps

Mmove %%1 %%2%%3
Ccopy %%1 %%2%%3
Ecopy  empty.pic %%1%%2
% validations, XSLT tranformations,...
 Xmake -f NSGMLS name=%%1  ext=%%2


The third line is done for my installation,
and you have to adapt it to yours.
I have  spaces in pathes on my installation,
and all work very well .




> This is the annoying part : it seems ImageMagick/convert.exe is not able
> to cope with files that have spaces in their path name :-( I'm still
> looking for a good fix to this one. In the mean time, you can overcome
> the problem by :
>
> mkdir c:/tmp
> set TEXMFTEMP=c:/tmp
>
> and that should do it.
>
> Fabrice
>
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