[OS X TeX] divps problem

[Gerben Wierda]

On Jun 5, 2006, at 16:17, Stephen Anderson wrote:

> Before taking off on sabbatical recently, I duly updated my TeX 
> installation (from Gerben's distribution, of course).  Now I find that 
> dvips (which I need, because of my reliance on ps-producing macros for 
> drawing linguistic trees) is choking in a most peculiar way.  When I 
> try to typeset a dummy version of a book manuscript I'm working on, 
> TeXShop (2.10 beta) fails to produce a pdf:
>
>> [....]
>> Output written on Surmiran.dvi (22 pages, 7044 bytes).
>> Transcript written on Surmiran.log.
>> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips -R 
>> -Poutline  -o /tmp/altpdflatex.1237-1149516534/Surmiran.ps 
>> Surmiran.dvi
>> This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software 
>> (www.radicaleye.com)
>> ' TeX output 2006.06.05:1608' -> 
>> /tmp/altpdflatex.1237-1149516534/Surmiran.ps
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips: ! Couldn't 
>> find header file 
>> /Users/sra/Library/texmf/tex/latex/local/tree-dvips.pro
>> ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.1237-1149516534/Surmiran.ps ()
>
> This makes no sense.  That header file is right where it belongs, as 
> it has been for a very long time:
>
>> Edgerton:~ sra$ ls -l 
>> /Users/sra/Library/texmf/tex/latex/local/tree-dvips.pro
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 sra  sra  6352 May  9  2002 
>> /Users/sra/Library/texmf/tex/latex/local/tree-dvips.pro
>
> I also find that other files (invoking tee-dvips) that typeset fine 
> prior a few weeks ago fail with the same error.
>
> What's up, and how do I fix it?

Maybe the stricter safety settings of dvips in newer distributions? You 
can try to add -R0 to the dvips command to see if it works.

G

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