[fptex] Cannot display PS files in WinDVI

[Ivailo Stoyanov]

Dear Fabrice,

> Anything in the log window that could explain this behaviour?

Nothing appears in the log window...

 
> Does it work with the file texmf/doc/windvi/examples/wtest.dvi ?

Yes, I see everything in this file.

> Or is it specific to some of your files ? In this case, send me a test
> file that does not work.

It seems so! I have experimented some more and here I send you a possible problematic example (``figs.tex'' + ``xfignn.ps'')! I suspect that the PS output from my favourite statistical system (R, current version: 1.8.0) is kind of peculiar -- I firstly noticed strange behaviour of dvipdfm when I was trying to compile a *.pdf, containing only plots obtained from R. The output was:

C:\TEMP>dvipdfm figs

figs.dvi -> figs.pdf
[1(./xfig1.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig1.ps).
(./xfig2.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig2.ps).
(./xfig3.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig3.ps).
(./xfig4.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig4.ps).
(./xfig5.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig5.ps).
(./xfig6.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig6.ps).
][2(./xfig7.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig7.ps).
(./xfig8.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig8.ps).
(./xfig9.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig9.ps).
(./xfig10.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig10.ps).
(./xfig11.ps<PS>
Version of PDF file (1.3) is newer than version limit specification.
pdf_open: Not a PDF 1.[1-3] file

Corrupt PDF file?

Ignoring stream with with multiple segments
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (xfig11.ps).
]
6427 bytes written

After a quick search on the web, I encountered the advice (it was on a unreadable for me japanese web-page, but the command was quite clear) to add the ``-V3'' switch, so the next attempt was successful:

C:\TEMP>dvipdfm -V3 figs

figs.dvi -> figs.pdf
[1(./xfig1.ps<PS>)(./xfig2.ps<PS>)(./xfig3.ps<PS>)(./xfig4.ps<PS>)(./xfig5.ps<PS
>)(./xfig6.ps<PS>)][2(./xfig7.ps<PS>)(./xfig8.ps<PS>)(./xfig9.ps<PS>)(./xfig10.p
s<PS>)(./xfig11.ps<PS>)]
2381587 bytes written

Hope that these first investigation provide some hint at the problem encountered!

Best regards,
Ivailo

PS. Find enclosed the zip-file with test-files
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