Powerdot problem.

[Schneider, Thomas (NIH/NCI) [E]]

Rolf:

> > I've encountered this too a long time ago. The notes in my script
> > are sketchy but this may help:
> >
> > latex demo
> > dvips demo
> > ps2pdf -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY demo.ps
> 
> Thanks. That works (but see below). Thought I'd tried it, but I guess
> I must have fumble-fingered something.
> 
> Be that as it may, when I issue the specified commands I now get a
> string of warnings:
> 
> > **** WARNING: .setopacityalpha is deprecated (as of 9.53.0) and will
> > be removed in a future release **** See
> > .setfillconstantalpha/.setalphaisshape for the improved solution
> 
> The resulting demo.pdf looks OK, but I'd rather not get those warnings.
> The exhortation "See .setfillconstantalpha/.setalphaisshaSpe for the
> improved solution" is pretty meaningless to me. No idea where the directory .setfillconstantalpha is located, or if it even exists.
> 
> Any ideas?

Fortunately on macOS there is a powerful way to find things -
spotlight - which I access from the command line.  This picked up some
notes from last February:

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2024 Feb 16

Latex warning:

<./figs/myfigurename/myfigurename.eps>]
   **** WARNING: .setopacityalpha is deprecated (as of 9.53.0) and will be removed in a future release
   **** See .setfillconstantalpha/.setalphaisshape for the improved solution

I reran the figure.  It still has setopacityalpha.  I cleared the entire paper
(cl script) and ran again - warning is gone.
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Apparently it was caused by an arrow in a figure.

My cl script clears LaTeX files with these extensions:

set extensions = "aux bbl blg bm toc flt toc vrb inx log dvi ps eps out lin idx"
set extensions = "$extensions lof fff"

The cl script is at:
http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/ftp/cl

That is, it pretty much removes all the files generated by LaTeX and
bibtex.

That apparently solved the problem.

So run with a clean slate of LaTeX files.

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
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