Re: problems with output of fig2dev

[Jason Eisner]

: I started with this figure file, j.fig:

My email enclosed a file with ^A characters (ASCII 0x01), which may
not have come through correctly.  If you are trying to replicate the
problem on your system, you can find the files here:

http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/tmp/j.fig      - the j.fig file I enclosed
http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/tmp/j.ps       - result of fig2dev
http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/tmp/result.ps  - result of a2ps

thanks, jme

: Date: 3 Jun 2003 15:59:47 -0400
: Date: Tue,  3 Jun 2003 15:59:46 -0400
: From: "Jason Eisner" <address@hidden>
: To: address@hidden
: Subject: problems with output of fig2dev
: 
: Hi,
: 
: I'm trying to concatenate a bunch of xfig slides into one big PS file.
: This URL suggests that a2ps should help:
:    http://cwrulug.cwru.edu/archive/cwrulug/200104/0286.html
:
: #FIG 2.1
: 80 2
: 2 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0.000 -1 0 0
:        19 39 861 39 861 39 861 39 9999 9999
: 4 0 16 24 0 0 0 0.00000 4 29 292 41 393 University of Pennsylvania

: 4 0 18 24 0 0 0 0.00000 4 29 187 41 358 Jason M. Eisner

: 4 0 18 34 0 0 0 0.00000 4 38 526 37 92 Efficient NORMAL-FORM Parsing

: 4 0 18 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 434 39 138 for Combinatory Categorial Grammar

: 4 0 16 24 0 0 0 0.00000 4 29 232 41 428 June 26, 1996 at ACL

: 
: I converted it to j.ps as follows:
: 
: fig2dev -L ps -l dummy j.fig j.ps
: 
: Running it through a2ps produced a bizarre upside-down, mirror-imaged
: version cropped from landscape to portrait but on a landscape page.  I
: tried some other a2ps options but to no avail.  
: 
: Is the problem with a2ps, fig2dev, or me?  (I've had no success either
: with psmerge, psjoin, or mpage, so perhaps fig2dev makes funny output ...?)
: 
: Thanks! jason
: 
: