Bug#592567: evince fails to display \naput and \nbput of pstricks correctly when rendering a dvi file

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Aug 18 11:12:33 UTC 2010


Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 05:51 -0400, sasha mal a écrit :
> You are saying that latex generates invalid DVI files.

No, I am suggesting that PStricks does.

Which is the whole point of PStricks, after all.

> Unless you point me to any place in latex or in dvi documentation that
> would support your claim, dated latest by last month, I would not even
> think of that.

Unless you are willing to add support for the PStricks extensions to the
DVI backend, I suggest that you accept the fact that it just won’t work.

Alternatively I can suggest that you migrate to pdflatex. Nobody sane
should use DVI nowadays.

Cheers,
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