[OS X TeX] Re: EPS files displayed as blank white box with latest TeX version (latex + Ghostscript)

[Markus Hänchen]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Yes: send it directly to Gerben Wierda, since he is the author of 
> simpdftex, a simulator for real pdfTeX.

Done!

 > If you can work in
> Terminal (or a *shell* buffer in Emacs) you could invoke 'sh -x 
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/simpdftex <tex file 
> name>' to see there too (without modification) what is happening.

Here is the output:
sh -x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/simpdftex 
test_eps.tex
+ version=$Revision: 2.18 $
++ basename /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/simpdftex
+ calledas=simpdftex
+ '[' simpdftex = simpdftex ']'
++ echo -n test_eps.tex
++ sed 's/^--//'
+ argwithoutlead=test_eps.tex
+ '[' test_eps.tex '!=' '' -a test_eps.tex = test_eps.tex ']'
+ formatname=test_eps.tex
+ shift
+ calledas=altpdftest_eps.tex
+ argvbackup=
+ maxpkdvipsopts=-Ppk
+ maxpfbdvipsopts=-Poutline
+ opt_dvipsopts=
+ extradvipsoptions=
+ dvipsoptions=-Poutline
+ outputpostfix=.maxpfb
+ simplename=yes
+ keeppsfile=no
+ echoversion=yes
++ dirname /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/simpdftex
+ texpath=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
+ distillerpath=/usr/local/bin
+ distillerprog=ps2pdf13
+ distillerfilter=no
+ unset outdir
+ debug=no
+ test 0 -gt 0
+ '[' yes = yes -a no = no ']'
+ echo '### This is 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/simpdftex, Version 
$Revision: 2.18 $'
### This is /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/simpdftex, 
Version $Revision: 2.18 $
+ '[' no = yes ']'
+ trap terminated 15

> 
> I'd think it's already dvips that misses the EPS file ../file.eps. This 
> could come from the fact that it uses a variable that names the 'root' 
> of some branches of the file system in which to search for parts of the 
> whole 'project' (TeX source file + non-TeX ingredients). Since the 
> search goes 'downwards' and '.' (the current working directory where the 
> TeX source file is) is always part of this search, dvips will find the 
> file as for example EPS-things/file.eps, but not on the 'higher' level, 
> which '..' indicates.

You are probably right, here a snippet from the TeXShop console:

/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips: Could not find 
figure file ../../graphs/ARCprocess_v2p1_val.eps; continuing

(Stupid question: why did it work with older versions of dvips?)

> 
> So you have one clue for a possible solution: non-TeX ingredients 
> 'below' the TeX source; a second one would be to create symbolic links 
> from the TeX source files's directory pointing to these non-TeX files 
> somewhere in the file system.

Could you elaborate on this a little bit, I do not really know what I 
should do.


> 
> -- 
> Mit friedvollen Grüßen
> 
>   Pete

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