On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:00:03PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Stefan Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There doesn't seem to be an easy way for Xdvi to detect that it's not > > a standalone PS file. (Paul, you know more about Postscript than I do > > - is the problem that the PS file doesn't define any fonts? Is this > > the way Metapost works? Does it work with dvips since the font will be > > already present in the `main' file?) > > > > If there's no way for xdvi to detect/fix this font problem, maybe we > > should switch to displaying a placeholder/bounding box for Metapost > > files - I don't know much about Metapost either; can we assume that > > files missing an `.(e)ps' extension are Metapost, or would we need > > to scan all files in 'PSfile' specials for a `%%Creator: MetaPost' > > comment?
metapost files are not .eps, although they're very close. They require special processing, which I haven't implemented yet. I should check what dvips does, and mimic that. > Shouldn't LaTeX indicate properly what it included? It doesn't know. --Paul Vojta, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
