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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 22.07.2023 um 12:05 schrieb Florian
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Hello, and
thank you for the first responses.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Here is
some more information:</div>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">- both
Linux (Debian and Kali) installations of TexLive have been
done by using either apt install or just by using the Synaptic
package manager. On my Mac, I have used the latest MacTeX and
regularly updated it with the TeX Live Utility.</div>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">- the .tex
files process without errors using pdflatex</div>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">- I call
dvips either out of the editor like Kile in Linux or TeXStudio
on the Mac; I have also tried "dvips name_of_dvifile" in a
terminal after changing into the directory with the .dvi file</div>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">- attached
is a text file created in the MacTeX installation with the
command "dvips -d -1 name_of_dvifile.dvi > dvips_test_a.txt
2>&1"; a .ps file was not created</div>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">- the error
message in the Linux distributions is:</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Prozess gestartet: dvips -o "Liste_fuer_CuP".ps "Liste_fuer_CuP".dvi</font></span></div>
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated</font></p>
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Kommando abgestürzt: dvips -o "Liste_fuer_CuP".ps "Liste_fuer_CuP".dvi</font></p>
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Prozess endete mit Fehler(n)</font></p>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Thanks for
any help!</div>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Kindest
regards,</div>
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style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Florian</div>
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<p>Hello, <br>
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<p>the file dvips-text_a.txt looks quite normal, except that it ends
after opening of
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips/adobe-lwfn.map.
Could there be any problem with that file? Could you rerun updmap?
Can you temporarily rename the file?<br>
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<p>The second strange thing for me is your shell output: Prozess
gestartet ...</p>
<p>I would expect somethink like <br>
This is dvips(k) 2023.1 (TeX Live 2023) Copyright 2023 Radical
Eye<br>
Software (<a href="http://www.radicaleye.com" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">www.radicaleye.com</a>)</p>
<p>Is there some wrapper around?</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>Alois</p>
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