Re: Putting a bunch of jpg files on an mm document - too slow

[Blake McBride]

I tried:

1.  Convert the jpg file to a pdf file with:  convert file.jpg file.ps
2.  Include the picture with:  .PDFPIC file.pdf 4in
3.  Run groff with:  pdfroff -mm -U file.mm >file.pdf

But line 3 gives me the following error:

GPL Ghostscript 9.55.0: Unrecoverable error, exist code 1
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'm sure the jpg and mm files are correct.

Thanks!

Blake


On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 2:05 PM Blake McBride <blake1024@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a bunch of jpg files I need to put into an mm file.  The way I am
> doing it right now is:
>
> 1. convert jpg files to ps files using:  convert pic.jpg pic.ps
> 2. Include the pics in the mm file using:  .PSPIC pic.ps 4in
> 3. Run groff:   groff -mm file.mm >file.ps
> 4. Convert the file to a PDF file with:  ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf
>
> It works. The problem is that stem #4 takes a long time.  Sometimes more
> than five minutes!
>
> I tried using gs directly but that didn't help.
>
> Any suggestions on including jpg files into an mm document faster?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Blake
>
>