[OS X TeX] diffps with Snow Leopard ?

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Am 11.10.2009 um 16:13 schrieb Herbert Schulz:

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




My negative test was made with the current MacTeX-2008  [20 March  
2009 ].
So I am going to get and install a "MacTeX-2009 pretest" , too.

I'll report later ...


Thanks,
Steffen