[gentoo-user] psnup vs. dvips

[gentoo-user] psnup vs. dvips

[karl]

 A latex related question.

Is there any change to dvips to make the output file incompatible
with psutils ?

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When I removed texlive 2017 in favour of gentoo texlive
psnup stopped producing files compatible with gv.
I get error messages like:

===========
Error: /undefinedGPL Ghostscript 9.53.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
 in PStoPSmatrix
Operand stack:
   --dict:101/200(L)--   PStoPSxform
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1990   1   3   %oparray_pop   1989   1   3   %oparray_pop   1977   1   3   %oparray_pop   1833   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:733/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:101/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
===========

I can work around the problem by using ps2ps after the dvips step.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar