[OzTeX] Problem with DVIPS and the production of HyperPostscript
output
David Hildum
hildum at cs.cmu.edu
Sat Feb 12 22:38:03 CET 2005
Hi -
Figured I'd better start here with my DVIPS question -
I've got a 152-page document being processed by OzTeX 5.1 and using the
hyperref package (i.e., \usepackage{hyperref}). My dvi file looks
great - all the links that are supposed to be active *are* active:
table of contents/figures/tables, footnote numbers, section/page
references, bibliographic citations, and all of my \href commands. If
I call DVIPS *without* the -z option and send the resulting Postscript
file through Distiller, I get a 152-page PDF document - without any
active links, as expected. BUT, when I *do* provide the -z option (to
produce HyperPostscript) and again run it through Distiller, I get a
PDF file that contains only the last 6 pages of my original document -
but the links *are* active!
The cause of the problem is clearly the Postscript file, since in the
first case (without the -z option), the Postscript file is 87Mb, while
in the second case, it's only 2.3Mb. The curious thing about the
processing by DVIPS is that it is (seemingly) identical in both cases
(i.e., with and without the -z option). It generates the same "[1] [2]
[3<Figures/fig1.eps>] [4<Figures/fig2.eps>] ... [151] [152]" output
each time and takes the same amount of processing time. In looking at
the two different Postscript files, I notice that the big one that
includes all 152 pages has "DVIPSSectionPage" commands for each page,
while the small, 6-page one has only six "DVIPSSectionPage" commands,
corresponding to the last 6 pages in the document.
So, my question is, why would the -z option to DVIPS be leaving out the
first 146 pages of my document when producing HyperPostscript output?
Any/all help/suggestions/pointers/etc. are welcome -
Thanks,
- David Hildum (hildum at cs.cmu.edu)
P.S. I'm using the "dvips 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software"
version that comes with the OzTeX 5.1 software.
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