[tex-live] [pretest] xetex cannot handle pstricks

[Vladimir Lomov]

** Dohyun Kim [2011-06-02 15:48:56 +0900]:

> Under TL2011 pretest, xetex (to be precise, xdvipdfmx) fails to handle
> pstricks code, how simple it may be.  I am using MacOSX Snow Leopard.
> TL2010 on the same machine has no such problem.  Neither does the
> dvips->ps2pdf routine of TL2011.

> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{pstricks}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(1,1)
> \psgrid
> \end{pspicture}
> \end{document}

> I want to know anybody can reproduce screen message like the following:

> GPL Ghostscript 9.02: **** Could not open the file
> '/var/folders/yy/yy1ikAmvHwyDgTq8YbvHJk+++TI/-Tmp//dvipdfmx.P9ozl8fZ'
> .
> **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
> sfopen: gs_parse_file_name failed.
> sfopen: gs_parse_file_name failed.
>   ./base/gsicc_manage.c:709: gsicc_open_search(): Could not find lab.icc
> | ./psi/zusparam.c:819: set_lab_icc(): cannot find default lab icc profile
> ** WARNING ** Filtering file via command -->rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> -sPAPERSIZE=a0 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5
> -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false -dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode
> -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode
> -sOutputFile='/var/folders/yy/yy1ikAmvHwyDgTq8YbvHJk+++TI/-Tmp-//dvipdfmx.P9ozl8fZ'
> '/var/folders/yy/yy1ikAmvHwyDgTq8YbvHJk+++TI/-Tmp-//dvipdfmx.68C6z6jO'
> -c quit<-- failed.
> ** WARNING ** Image format conversion for PSTricks failed.
> ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command pst: (ps:) failed.
> ** WARNING ** >> at page="1" position="(177.059, 688.742)" (in PDF)
> ** WARNING ** >> xxx "pst:  tx at Dict begin STP newpath 0.8 SLW 0
> setgray   gsave 0.4 "
>  )

Some other tests: I have TL10 and TL11 installed in one system, tried
with ghostscript 9.02, 9.01, 9.00 compiled with '--disable-compile-inits':
gs ver. |     TL10     |    TL11    |  option
--------+--------------+------------+---------
 9.02   |    works     |   failed   | --disable-compile-inits
 9.01   |    works     |   failed   | --disable-compile-inits
 9.00   |    works     |   failed   | --disable-compile-inits
 9.02   |    works     |   failed   | compiled w/o this option

So something was changed either in pstricks or in xdvipdfmx.

I checked two files (xdvipdfmx.cfg and dvipdfmx.cfg) but they are the
same in both TL10 and TL11.

Last note: on my system when I run xelatex (TL11) on the example
document I see in terminal file name: /tmp/dvipdfmx.XXeXifPg (random
string I guess) and there exist that file in /tmp with size 0 while in
/tmp exists another file dvipdfmx.XXXXXXX (random string) which has
instruction for gs and again it refers to other two unexisted files.

---
WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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