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[Stephan Hennig]

[CC'ed back to the metapost list, since this is not only related to
ConTeXt.]

Peter Rolf schrieb:
> Stephan Hennig wrote:
>> 
>> [makempy/pstoedit/Ghostscript hang]
>>
>> That is, it seems as if pstoedit calls Ghostscript and that hangs.
>> I've updated to v8.56, recently, and didn't observe any problems
>> with pstoedit and MetaPost with older versions of Ghostscript (in
>> other applications).  What version of Ghostscript are you running?
>>
> also ghostscript 8.56

Could someone with an older version of Ghostscript please check if
pstoedit/Ghostscript hang with the attached example?  That would make it
easier for me deciding where to send the bug report to.

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig

input metafun
beginfig(1);
  graphictext "Outlined  text!" scaled 8
  withfillcolor .7blue;
endfig;
end

Name the file outline.mp and process with

>mpost outline
>perl makempy.pl outline

or what's a proper method to run a Perl script on your OS.  (With MiKTeX
you can just say "makempy outline".)