[pstricks] PSTricks Digest, Vol 214, Issue 4

[Herbert Voss]

Am 11.02.21 um 12:00 schrieb John Was:
>
> It's not quite true (in my case at least) that it makes no sense to 
> use an older installation.  I abandoned the 2020 version of XeTeX a 
> couple of days after installation since it messed up a periodical 
> issue I was working on (it placed the message 'ifpdf [2016/04/04 v3.0 
> Provides the ifpdf switch]' at the head of the first page) - something 
> I could eliminate if I commented out some packages (e.g. pstricks 
> itself, if I recall correctly), but that obviously wouldn't be 
> satisfactory long term.

It makes sense not to change a running system when wirking on an 
important paper or book.
But after finishing, it makes sense to update for future projects and 
for testing the old
source code without having a timeline ...

>
> More seriously, it totally messed up an edition I was working on 
> (Latin and English on facing pages), plastering the text with overfull 
> blobs though not reporting any compilation errors.  In view of a 
> publication deadline, I had no choice but to revert to the 2013 
> installation of XeTeX, which works fine for all that I require.  It 
> happens right now that it would be convenient to be able to generate a 
> single character in outline - but it's not critical and I can work 
> around this some other way.


You have to update at least pst-text.sty|tex|pro and also xdvipdfmx

Herbert