Frank Küster wrote: > Jim Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This bug was introduced in 3.0-19: > > > > tetex-base (3.0-19) unstable; urgency=medium > > ... > > * Add a patch for dvipdfm's config file that allows proper inclusion of > > really large Postscript files, as reported by Thomas Esser and Laurent > > Siebenmann on the TeXLive list. Thanks to Heiko Oberdiek for the > > patch. [frank] > > > > I tested Dan's suggestion: replacing -dEPSCrop in the config file with > > > > -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=500000 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=500000 > > > > solves the problem for me. > > I think the problem is that we cannot make everybody happy - there is no > default which would work without problems in all cases.
Will Dan's suggestion not make everbody happy? The original problem seemed to be that the a0 paper size was too small for large EPS files. Specifying a nearly infinite size as above would avoid this. > This is a configuration file; maybe the right fix is to just document > this (in the file and in some README) and leave the choice to the > user. It isn't marked as a conffile in the package, and it's not in /etc, so it will need a bit more than just documentation. -jim
