Re: FYI, Second Edition Release Candidate 1 now available

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Akira, thank you!
Sorry, I was slow today due to holidays.

Happy New Year!
Dmitry

чт, 31 дек. 2020 г. в 13:45, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:22:22 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:05:34 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >> On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:14:36 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:18:24 +0300, Дмитрий Дьяченко wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> a2ping is up to date
> >>>> $ a2ping -v
> >>>> a2ping.pl 2.84p, 2019-11-17
> >>>> [..]
> >>>>
> >>>> My TexLive 2020 is not from Fedora packages but from TexArchive.
> [...]
> >> Switching back to TeX Live 2020 of Fedora package restored the successful build.
> >>
> >> This suggests something in upstream TeX Live 2020 has lost compatibility with
> >> Fedora 32/33 since this September/October.
> >> I have no idea what went wrong, though. Both Fedora and upstream TeX Live are
> >> updated frequently, so...
> >
> > Dmitry,
> >
> > I have resolved a issue on my side (clash of $HOME/.texlive2020 with
> > the Fedora's TeX Live) and now I see the same error as you have reported.
> >
> > Now I can compare the .eps files on my own.
>
> Dmitry,
>
> This September saw updates in both GhostScript (9.53.0, now 9.53.3) and
> pstricks-base (3.01).
> It turned out this combination is the cause of the error you have encountered.
>
> Update announcement of pstricks-base 3.01 [1] says:
>
>     This version has a modified pstricks.tex|.pro for GhostScript versions > 9.52
>
> However, it does not work with ghostscript 9.53.x in perfbook's use cases.
>
> So, one workaround would be to downgrade ghostscript to 9.52 [2].
>
> Another option would be to downgrade pstricks-base to 2.90 (2018/12/17)
> (or similar [3]), which is the version in Fedora's current TeX Live package.
> But note that an old version of pstricks-base might be incompatible with
> the up-to-date upstream TeX Live.
>
> It may sound strange but pstrics-base 2.90 works with ghostscript 9.53.x
> as far as transparency composition is not concerned.
> Perfbook's figures don't use transparency composition.
>
> [1]: pstricks-base 3.01 update announcement on CTAN:
>     https://www.ctan.org/ctan-ann/id/mailman.2839.1600699145.2548.ctan-ann@xxxxxxxx
>
> [2]: GhostScript release downloads:
>     https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases
>
> [3]: pstricks-base (as of 2019/02/27)
>     https://www.texlive.info/tlnet-archive/2019/02/27/tlnet/archive/pstricks.tar.xz
>
> GhostScript's compatibility-breaking "security" updates have caused a lot of
> troubles these days...
>
> Hopefully pstricks-base would catch up gs 9.53.x soon.
>
>         Thanks, Akira
>
> [...]
>




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