Re: ps changes betweeen 2.7.29 and 2.8.2 broke tabloid booklet

[Graham Percival]

On 14-May-06, at 7:57 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:

> Argh. Well, this teaches me to reply to one email before reading
> the rest.

:)

> Christian Conkle on lilypond-user reported a similar failure,

Yes; that prompted me to investigate, and I discovered that my 
previously-working system failed.

> Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote on Thu, 11 May 2006
> at 03:24:36 -0700 in <address@hidden>:
>
> > 1) use lilypond-book to produce normal ps and pdf.  (well,
> > normal-looking; I know little about under-the-hood ps stuff)
> > 2) run this:
> > psbook $1.ps | psnup -2 -ptabloid -Pletter | ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=11x17 
> > -
> > tab-$1.pdf
> >
> > With 2.8.2, the final ps2pdf fails
>
> I expect this relates to binary font encodings and psbook/psnup. What
> if you pdf2ps the lilypond-produced pdf file and use that as your
> starting point for psbook?

It works fine with this solution.


Still, it would be nice to track down this bug.  The original file 
(works with ps2pdf) is
http://percival-music.ca/op2.ps
and after  psbook $1.ps | psnup -2 -ptabloid -Pletter > bar.ps    (no 
longer works)
http://percival-music.ca/bar.ps

and here's the error message:
----
Error: /rangecheck in --get--
Operand stack:
   names   --nostringval--   1   6147   --nostringval--   37
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
  --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   
1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   
.runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   
%stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1124/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:81/200(L)--   
--dict:53/72(ro)(G)--   --dict:10/30(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 4968
AFPL Ghostscript 8.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
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Cheers,
- Graham