[OS X TeX] diffps with Snow Leopard ?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

>
> Am 11.10.2009 um 15:13 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>
>>
>> On Oct 11, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Axel, hi Jan, hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> does anyone already has diffps successfully installed under Snow  
>>> Leopard?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steffen
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I have one dated from summer '08 in ~/bin (?) but I have no idea  
>> where it came from. given that it's in ~/bin I'd guess I put it  
>> there some time ago. Haven't used it at all so I don't know if it  
>> actually works and there is no man page that I know of. I just ran
>>
>> ~/bin/diffps -h
>>
>> and got the help page which, at the bottom, says ``Created by  
>> Michael Sternberg, 2001-2007. Use at your own risk.''
>>
>> There was a short thread about it and Leopard at <http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2008-April/034949.html 
>> > (and the previous, linked message) and you can download the  
>> script at <http://homepage.mac.com/michael.g.sternberg/tex/ 
>> index.html>.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> it should have been more precisely: "does anybody alredy has  
> successfully used under Snow Leopard?" ;o)
>
> When I run Michaels script I get an error:
>
>   **** File has an unbalanced >> (close dictionary).
>   **** Incorrect object count in object stream.
> Error: /rangecheck in resolveobjectstream
>
> [...]
>
> GPL Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> Best,
> Steffen

Howdy,

Just tried it with MacTeX-2009 pretest (which includes Ghostscript  
8.70) on a couple of slightly different versions of a pdf file and it  
seems to work fine. Oh, yes, I'm using Snow Leopard.

The output is really ugly as viewed in Preview.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)