Re: [Groff] pdfroff broken?

[Keith MARSHALL]

Werner Lemberg wrote, quoting Larry Kollar:
>> [...] >pdfmark.pdf
>> AFPL Ghostscript 8.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>> 
>> MacOSX 10.4.5, configure line is "./configure --prefix=/usr
>> --mandir=/usr/ share/man" (adding "CXX=g++2" is not required for
>> 10.4.x) if that makes a difference.
>
> On my GNU/Linux box, using gs 8.53 too, pdfmark.pdf compiles just
> fine.  Probably a MacOSX problem with gs?

WFM too, also on GNU/Linux but with older gs.  As I suggested in an
earlier post, perhaps the problem is with MacOSX sed;  IIRC, Robert
Goulding reported some other issue with this.

> BTW, it would be nice if pdfroff has a --keep option which retains
> all intermediate files.  It would be then easier to locate the
> problematic spot in the PS->PDF conversion step.

Good idea.  I'll give some thought to providing an implementation.

Regards,
Keith.