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From: mojo@reed.bitnet (the Doubtful Guest)
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Subject: psfig problem o' the day
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Date: 6 Feb 90 06:13:13 GMT
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When I run psfig using EPS output from a NeXT, dvips generates error messages
based on the fact that "pstext" is not a valid \special keyword.  I tried
replacing \special{pstext="blah"} with \special{"blah}, which is what the
manpage seems to indicate, but had no luck---the PostScript file suffers
from a nocurrentpoint error somewhere, and there are about n calls to
currentpoint in a 40K file, so I don't really want to fix it by hand.

This is with Tom Rokicki's (Radical Eye Software) dvips 4.21; the version of
psfig seems to date from January 1987.  (Is there a newer one?)

Anybody know how to hack around this problem?

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