[tex-live] xdvi and ghostscript 8.63

Ken Brown kbrow1i at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 13:39:18 CET 2008


On 11/26/2008 8:41 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>  > Is anyone successfully using xdvi with ghostscript 8.63?  The latter 
>  > just became available on my system [cygwin], but xdvi wouldn't display 
>  > eps graphics after I installed it.  Reverting to ghostscript 8.62 solved 
>  > the problem.  As usual, I don't know if this is a cygwin issue.
> 
> Please send me the files which demonstrate the problem.

It did turn out to be an easily-fixed cygwin issue (packaging bug).  The 
new ghostscript requires the Cairo library, so I had to install the 
libcairo2 package.  Sorry for the noise.

Ken


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