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From: S.P.Q.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: making psfig act sensibly
Message-ID: <16230.9010091836@cameron.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Oct 90 18:36:58 GMT
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A reluctant LaTeX user here got miffed at the wonderful \psfig macros
because they failed to report accurately that a PS file was missing,
as opposed to being malformed. My suggestion is to change \@p@@sfile
(and \@p@@sfigure} as follows, so that the error is explicitly
reported, but the job carries on, writing merely a FAILED message
where the file should have been (imitating \psdraft by increasing
\@p@scost). No doubt someone will tell me that LaTeX should stop and
give an error - suggestions?

Sebastian

\def\@p@@sfile#1{\def\@p@sfile{FAILED:#1}%
	        \openin1=#1
		\ifeof1\closein1%
		       \openin1=\figurepath#1
			\ifeof1\typeout{ERROR! PostScript file #1 not found}
                        \@p@@sbbllx{100bp}
                        \@p@@sbblly{100bp}
                        \@p@@sbburx{200bp}
                        \@p@@sbbury{200bp}
                        \def\@p@scost{200}
			\else\closein1
			    \edef\@p@sfile{\figurepath#1}%
                        \fi%
		 \else\closein1%
		       \def\@p@sfile{#1}%
		 \fi}