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Re: [TeXmacs] More troubles with 1.0.3.8: crashes, pictures and papersizes


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  • From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
  • To: Magnus Rohde <address@hidden>
  • Cc: <address@hidden>, Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] More troubles with 1.0.3.8: crashes, pictures and papersizes
  • Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:19:47 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 14 May 2004, Magnus Rohde wrote:
> 13/5-2004, kl. 22:19, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > Can you please confirm that these problems only occur with version
> > 1.0.3.8
> > and not already in version 1.0.3.7? That would help the debugging.
> >
> >> 1:
> >> When I try to move the insertion mark into a floating element that is
> >> included from another document, TeXmacs crashes (exits). This happens
> >> when using either the mouse or the arrowkeys.
>
> The document I had open when I discovered this worked flawlessly under
> 1.0.3.7. I have not retested under 1.0.3.7, maybe I will during the
> weekend. In the meantime can someone else try to replicate this?

OK, thanks for the confirmation. I indeed discovered a similar bug when
editing in "page mode" and corrected it on the CVS. Please check whether
things work for the CVS version.

> >> 2:
> >> Whenever I try to open a document with pictures (png or jpeg) it looks
> >> like the picture data is damaged. If it's jpeg, it says: "Bad Huffman
> >> code" or somthing like that and displays a garbled picture. If it's
> >> png, it says "png damaged by ASCII conversion" and displays a
> >> questionmark. This happend when opening both old an new documents.
> >> Workaround: only use linked pictures.
>
> This is definetly something new, as I have used pictures in several
> documents with 1.0.3.7 with no problems. This also occurs with new
> document created under 1.0.3.8.

Hmm, I wonder if this is due to the change I made to accept TeXmacs
files in Windows \r\n format. In order to check this hypothesis,
please remove all lines with \r on it from fromtm.cpp and retry.

> >> 3:
> >> When I export to PostScript or pdf the resulting document always uses
> >> 11*8.5 as papersize, eventhough the paper size is set to a4 in both
> >> TeXmacs and ghostscript. Has anybody experienced this, and how do
> >> change the papersize in pdf's and .ps's?
>
> This is also a problem with older documents (made with the current
> TeXmacs version 3 - 4 months ago). Maybe this particular problem is
> ghostscripts fault?

This is strange. I just modified some page-related stuff.
Did you set Document -> Page -> Size -> A4 ?




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