Daniel Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:55:21PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > I notice that http://printing.kde.org/downloads/ has version 20060221, > > and your patch 20050907toDebian.diff applies with just an offset: > > > > ... > > > > The poster ChnageLog says: > > > > 2006-02-19 Manfred Paulus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... > > * output: make postscript functions out of read in > > page descriptions instead of copying the code > > for every output page > > ... > > > > Is there a reason that you didn't use the 2006 version but rather the > > 2005 version? > > > > Yes. It didn't give printable output, at least for my tests > (LaTeX/dvips poster + file from Bug #255718). It's mainly the > above change that caused problems. I'm not a postscript expert, > but the whole poster (typically single-page) is defined in one macro > "/print_content_of_complete_page_XX". Then the macro is used multiple > times, for each new page. That makes the resulting postscript document > much smaller, but it seems to break other things. Maybe there is > some size limitation in postscript for macros? > > Nevertheless, that was the reason I preferred the 2005 version over > the 2006 version, because it seems to be the more stable one, although > it produces larger documents. > > cheers, > > Daniel
Thanks Daniel. I fixed the epoch in the changelog and uploaded it. Thanks you for all the work! Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
