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pstoedit package

  1. Bug #1734624
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 1734624

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Jan Winkler (jcwinkler) wrote :

Because of this ghostscript+pstoedit incompatibility I implemented the pdf2svg backend in TexText.

TexText first tries to use pdf2svg for the pdf->svg conversion. If this fails, it falls back to pstoedit+ghostscript. If this fails, too, TexText gives up.

The installation instructions for TexText recommend to use pdf2svg on Linux, see point 4 in

https://github.com/textext/textext/wiki/Installation-specific-instructions-for-Linux-systems

So it is the responsibility of the user to ensure that the correct packages are installed. Not the best solution, of course...

I don't see a workaround "outside" of pstoedit because the DELAYBIND command is compiled into pstoedit. So best is to upgrade pstoedit to 3.71 or downgrade gs to 9.20 or upgrade to 9.23...