[OS X TeX] Problem with dvips and shak(new)

[Gerben Wierda]

It might be that altpdftex is not robust against dvips needing input 
from the orginal source directory. It copies things to a /tmp directory 
because of other conflicts (some even dangerous for your system).

G

On Jan 1, 2005, at 00:31, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 12/31/04 4:09 PM, "Herb Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> To help out Mauro Cereda with implementing the skak package and 
>> skaknew
>> type1 fonts to print PGN formatted chess games with LaTeX I dowloaded 
>> them
>> and have installed them on my machine. I've got most things going 
>> under
>> pdflatex but need to go the latex+ghostscript route to use a few of 
>> the
>> features that need pstricks (Once I get that working I'll try to add 
>> \ifpdf
>> testing and use pdftricks but one thing at a time). The file compiles 
>> fine
>> under altpdflatex but dvips has a problem and I get the console 
>> output:
>>
>> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips -R 
>> -Poutline  -o
>> /tmp/altpdflatex.2526-1104530054/tuggame.ps tuggame.dvi
>> This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software
>> (www.radicaleye.com)
>> ' TeX output 2004.12.31:1554' -> 
>> /tmp/altpdflatex.2526-1104530054/tuggame.ps
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips: ! Couldn't 
>> find
>> header file SkakNew-Diagram
>> ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.2526-1104530054/tuggame.ps ().
>>
>> I'm not familiar with dvips since I usually go the pdflatex route. Is 
>> there
>> something I haven't installed to use the SkakNew-Diagram font with 
>> dvips?
>> Like I said, it works fine with pdflatex unless I try to use a 
>> feature that
>> needs pstricks.
>>
>> The use of pstricks for the feature is buried in the skak package 
>> file so
>> I'd like to straighten that out before hacking that part of the 
>> package.
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> It's actually worse than I thought. It has nothing to do with 
> pstricks. The
> same file that compiles fine under pdflatex gets the error above after 
> the
> .dvi file is successfully created and dvips is trying to convert that 
> into
> the .ps file using the altpdflatex ``engine.''
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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