[texpoint-users] TexPoint - Error while executing maketheshape

Andreas Glatz glatz at anl.gov
Tue Apr 17 16:06:09 PDT 2007


Hi,

 Could you try to update your ghostscript to 8.54 (not the latest 8.56!) - there are known problems with 8.10&bounding
box? (you can also upgrade TexPoint to Version 3.0.1 [free, if your license is not older than 6 month]).

Andreas.


On 2007-04-17 08:11, M.Simeoni at irctr.tudelft.nl wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>  
> I've just installed TexPoint 2.12.1 on PowerPoint 2003 SP2 and I'm
> having some problem in having it running properly.
> In particular I have my scripts compliled with a proper DVI and PS
> generated but I fail having the equations displayed in the PPT file, I
> get an error message saying:
>  
> Error:
> Serious error while execution of maketheshape
>  
> While the TexPoint window displays at its bottom:
>  
> Running Ghostscript to get the bounding box ...
>  
> I suspect it is a problem with Ghostscript, I tried both versions 7.00
> and 8.14 and the Ghostscript parameter
>  
> -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=$(GSdev) -r$(res) 
> -sOutputFile="$(base).$(bmext)" -g$(sx)x$(sy) -c $(tx) $(ty) translate
> $(excom)  -q "$(base).ps"
>  
> After setting the debug level to 2 I get a log file (MakeBitmap.txt) as
> follows:
>  
> TexPoint Debug started at 17-04-2007 14:18:40
>  
> logging to file: D:\Didactics\PATO_antennas\2007\MakeBitmap.log
>  
> 
> File: D:\Didactics\PATO_antennas\2007\MakeBitmap.log written (max 256
> bytes shown): TexPoint Debug started at 17-04-2007 14:18:40
>  
> logging to file: D:\Didactics\PATO_antennas\2007\MakeBitmap.log
>  
>  
> File: D:\Didactics\PATO_antennas\2007\txp_fig_35.tex written (max 256
> bytes shown): \documentclass[11pt]{article}\pagestyle{empty}
> \usepackage{LaTeX/local_commands}
> \begin{document}
> \[
> Z_5(V,I) = V/I
> \]
> \end{document}
>  
> 
> File: D:\Didactics\PATO_antennas\2007\txp_fig_35.lock written (max 256
> bytes shown): This file can be deleted.
>  
> Before starting tex2bmp
>  
> Starting internal tex2bmp pictureDir=D:\Didactics\PATO_antennas\2007\
> extname=txp_fig_35 gsdevice=emf extension=emf resString=600
> extraBitmapCommand=
>  
> Failed to read file: C:\Program Files\TexPoint\TPinit.txt
>  
> Could not read global file. Using local data if available.
>  
> reloaded the parameters
>  
> internal Tex2Bmp starts with D:\Didactics\PATO_antennas\2007\txp_fig_35
>  
>> calling latex next with param:
> "txp_fig_35.tex"
>  
>> calling dvips next with param:
> -D 600 -E -o "txp_fig_35.ps" "txp_fig_35.dvi" -G1
>  
>> trying to get boundingbox next...
>  
> *** debug ended ***
>  
>  
>  
> Thank you very much for your support.
>  
> Best regards,
>  
>  
>  
> Massimiliano
>  
>  
> 
> ______________________________________________
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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