[pstricks] prosper overlays problems
akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de
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> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:38:05 +0100 (CET)
> From: akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de
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> Subject: Re: [pstricks] prosper overlay problems
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> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it does not help much. When I
> remove the pdf option, it compiles without problems but does not produce
> any overlays -- both frames are displayed simultaneously. The same can be
> achieved if I simply remove all \overlays and \fromSlide{#}{..} commands,
> but this is not what I need.
>
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>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:17:32 +0100 (CET)
>> From: akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de
>> To: pstricks at tug.org
>> Subject: Re: [pstricks] prosper overlays problems
>> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701261406430.21906 at lin-1608d>
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>> Hello Herbert,
>>
>> here is the minimal example.
>>
>> The prosper file test1.tex:
>>
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>> \documentclass[pdf,serpaggi,slideColor,colorBG,accumulate,nototal]{prosper}
>> \usepackage{pstricks,pst-node}
>> %%%\usepackage{pst-ovl}
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \overlays{2}{
>> \begin{slide}[Box]{This is a test}
>> \small
>> This is the first frame
>> \fromSlide{2}{
>>
>> This is the second frame
>> }
>> \end{slide}
>> }
>> \end{document}
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>
>> Then
>>
>> latex test1 -> dvips test1 -> ps2pdf test1.ps test1.pdf
>>
>> At the last stage there is an error message:
>>
>> Error: /undefined in BOL
>> Operand stack:
>> (1)
>> Execution stack:
>> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
>> --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
>> --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1977 1 3 %oparray_pop
>> 1976 1 3 %oparray_pop 1960 1 3 %oparray_pop 1852 1 3
>> %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2
>> --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
>> --nostringval--
>> Dictionary stack:
>> --dict:1198/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:122/200(L)--
>> --dict:181/300(L)-- --dict:119/200(L)--
>> Current allocation mode is local
>> Last OS error: No such file or directory
>> Current file position is 150749
>> GPL Ghostscript 9.18: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>
>> The error actually occurs already at the dvips stage. If after dvips test1
>> I open the test1.ps file with gv, I see the following error message:
>>
>> Error: /undefined in BOL
>> Operand stack:
>> (1)
>> Execution stack:
>> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
>> --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
>> --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1977 1 3 %oparray_pop
>> 1976 1 3 %oparray_pop 1960 1 3 %oparray_pop 1852 1 3
>> %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2
>> --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
>> --nostringval--
>> DictiGPL Ghostscript 9.18: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>> onary stack:
>> --dict:1198/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:123/200(L)--
>> --dict:181/300(L)-- --dict:119/200(L)--
>> Current allocation mode is local
>> Last OS error: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem seems to be known, but I was not able to find a clear
>> solution. On the web page
>>
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/132779/problem-with-overlays
>>
>> it is mentioned that the problem may be related to incompatibility of
>> prosper with recent versions of pstricks. However, the suggested solution
>> (to add \usepackage{pst-ovl}) did not work in my case.
>>
>>
>>
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>>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:32:14 +0100 (CET)
>>> From: akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de
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>>> Subject: [pstricks] prosper overlay problems
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>>> Hi, I have recently upgraded Ubuntu to version 16.04 on my desktop and
>>> found that all my legacy prosper files with \overlays in them stopped
>>> working. Apparently the problem is that prosper is not compatible with
>>> recent versions of pstricks. Is it possible to get an older version which
>>> would still work with prosper? Thanks, Evgeny
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:20:08 +0100
>>> From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
>>> To: pstricks at tug.org
>>> Subject: Re: [pstricks] prosper overlay problems
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>>> Am 26.01.2017 um 10:32 schrieb akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de:
>>>> Hi, I have recently upgraded Ubuntu to version 16.04 on my desktop and
>>>> found that all my legacy prosper files with \overlays in them stopped
>>>> working. Apparently the problem is that prosper is not compatible with
>>>> recent versions of pstricks. Is it possible to get an older version
>>>> which would still work with prosper? Thanks, Evgeny
>>>
>>> Please give a short and complete example with the error message.
>>>
>>> Herbert
>>>
>>>
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>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:32:33 +0100
>> From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
>> To: pstricks at tug.org
>> Subject: Re: [pstricks] prosper overlays problems
>> Message-ID: <9878df55-c5d6-ab0d-2509-d8c4f4c3fa78 at FU-Berlin.DE>
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>> Am 26.01.2017 um 14:17 schrieb akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de:
>>
>>> here is the minimal example.
>>>
>>> The prosper file test1.tex:
>>>
>>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>> \documentclass[pdf,serpaggi,slideColor,colorBG,accumulate,nototal]{prosper}
>>
>> do _not_ use the option "pdf":
>>
>> \documentclass[pdf,serpaggi,slideColor,colorBG,accumulate,nototal]{prosper}
>>
>> then it works for me. Up-to-date TeXLive 2016
>>
>> the pdf option makes only sense for default documents with
>> article or book class.
>>
>> Herbert
>>
>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:33:36 +0100
>> From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
>> To: Graphics with PSTricks <pstricks at tug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [pstricks] prosper overlays problems
>> Message-ID: <a2c7b034-fb1e-6a0d-6ab1-98ad43180696 at FU-Berlin.DE>
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>> Am 26.01.2017 um 14:32 schrieb Herbert Voss:
>>> Am 26.01.2017 um 14:17 schrieb akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de:
>>>
>>>> here is the minimal example.
>>>>
>>>> The prosper file test1.tex:
>>>>
>>>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>>> \documentclass[pdf,serpaggi,slideColor,colorBG,accumulate,nototal]{prosper}
>>>>
>>>
>>> do _not_ use the option "pdf":
>>>
>>> \documentclass[pdf,serpaggi,slideColor,colorBG,accumulate,nototal]{prosper}
>>
>> sigh, should be
>>
>> \documentclass[serpaggi,slideColor,colorBG,accumulate,nototal]{prosper}
>>
>>
>>>
>>> then it works for me. Up-to-date TeXLive 2016
>>>
>>> the pdf option makes only sense for default documents with
>>> article or book class.
>>>
>>> Herbert
>>
>>
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> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:10:38 +0100
> From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
> To: pstricks at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [pstricks] prosper overlay problems
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> Am 27.01.2017 um 13:38 schrieb akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de:
>> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it does not help much. When I
>> remove the pdf option, it compiles without problems but does not produce
>> any overlays -- both frames are displayed simultaneously. The same can
>> be achieved if I simply remove all \overlays and \fromSlide{#}{..}
>> commands, but this is not what I need.
>
> I'll see what I can do
>
> Herbert
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:39:53 +0100
> From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
> To: pstricks at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [pstricks] prosper overlay problems
> Message-ID: <32f71c6d-5447-3607-03fa-b4fcb77ee8ad at FU-Berlin.DE>
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> Am 27.01.2017 um 13:38 schrieb akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de:
>> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it does not help much. When I
>> remove the pdf option, it compiles without problems but does not produce
>> any overlays -- both frames are displayed simultaneously. The same can
>> be achieved if I simply remove all \overlays and \fromSlide{#}{..}
>> commands, but this is not what I need.
>
> I tried all versions of TeXLive back to 2010 and all have the
> same problem. I have no idea what the changes may be...
>
> However, converting the slides to powerdot is not really difficult:
>
>
> \documentclass[style=fyma]{powerdot}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{slide}{This is a test}
> \onslide{1-2}{This is the first frame}
>
> \onslide{2}{This is the second frame}
> \end{slide}
>
> \begin{slide}{Outline of the talk}
> \begin{itemize}[type=0]
> \item<1-> Introduction
> \item<2-> Statement of the main theorem
> \item<3> Technical lemmata
> \item<4-> Proof of the main theorem
> \item<5> Conclusions
> \end{itemize}
> \end{slide}
>
> \end{document}
>
>
> Herbert
Thanks once again. I could convert my files to powerdot (or beamer), but
they would have to be modified -- not only the overlay commands, but
frame, minipage and figure offsets, etc. I have many legacy prosper
files, so this would be a lot of work.
Actually, it may be that the problem is related with ghostscript rather
than with pstricks. I have a computer account at ICTP (Trieste), there my
files can be processed without problems. If I latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf my
test1.tex file there, everything is fine (they do have an older version of
pstricks, v1.29 I think). If I download from there test1.ps file to my
local computer in Heidelberg and then ps2pdf it here, everything is fine.
But if I download from there test1.dvi and dvips and ps2pdf it here, the
same problem occurs already at the dvips stage. So it may well be that the
problem is related to ghostscript.
Evgeny
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