"TeX capacity exceeded" with draftwatermark package
mc
I'm using draftwatermark (fresh from CTAN) on a relatively long manuscript
and getting "TeX Capacity Exceeded" on the 12th page. Is this a known
problem?
I am using MikTeX from a couple of years back.
Thanks,
Michael Covington
Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Center
The University of Georgia - www.ai.uga.edu/mc
Ulrike Fischer
> Greetings,
>
> I'm using draftwatermark (fresh from CTAN) on a relatively long
> manuscript and getting "TeX Capacity Exceeded" on the 12th page. Is
> this a known problem?
No. Try to make a minimal failing document.
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Maurizio Loreti
> I'm using draftwatermark (fresh from CTAN) on a relatively long manuscript
> and getting "TeX Capacity Exceeded" on the 12th page. Is this a known
> problem?
Does the section "Capacity exceeded [semantic nest ...]" of the FAQ
list help? Or the section "Capacity exceeded - input levels" of the
same FAQ list?
- http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=semanticnest
- http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inputlev
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
> I'm using draftwatermark (fresh from CTAN) on a relatively long manuscript
> and getting "TeX Capacity Exceeded" on the 12th page. Is this a known
> problem?
I have experienced this too. I seem to recall that including (large?) images
increased the chances of it happening. It was a problem with both latex and
pdflatex, and was no doubt caused by a bug in drafterwatermark.
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
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mc
news:2010447.9...@ID-99504.news.uni-berlin.de...
> mc skreiv:
>
>> I'm using draftwatermark (fresh from CTAN) on a relatively long
>> manuscript
>> and getting "TeX Capacity Exceeded" on the 12th page. Is this a known
>> problem?
>
> I have experienced this too. I seem to recall that including (large?)
> images
> increased the chances of it happening. It was a problem with both latex
> and
> pdflatex, and was no doubt caused by a bug in drafterwatermark.
What I'm wanting to do is add a couple of lines ("this is an unpublished
manuscript, copyright etc. etc.") to every page of my document. I've been
doing this with PostScript specials, but those don't show up when I use
dvipdf. So I thought draftwatermark would do the job.
I haven't tried to construct a minimum failing document, but
\usepackage{draftwatermark}
by itself (taking all the defaults) will produce the problem.
I'll see if the error message has any more to tell me.
mc
"Maurizio Loreti" <m...@foobar.it> wrote in message
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> "mc" <lo...@www.ai.uga.edu.for.address> writes:
>
>> I'm using draftwatermark (fresh from CTAN) on a relatively long
>> manuscript
>> and getting "TeX Capacity Exceeded" on the 12th page. Is this a known
>> problem?
>
> Does the section "Capacity exceeded [semantic nest ...]" of the FAQ
> list help? Or the section "Capacity exceeded - input levels" of the
> same FAQ list?
>
> - http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=semanticnest
> - http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inputlev
It is neither of those. It occurs at a place where there is a stack of
floats needing to be placed. Here's the log:
<pix/061013-M31easy.eps> <pix/DSLRsideview.eps> <pix/DSLRcutaway.eps> [12]
Runaway text?
ps: currentpoint g
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=2000001].
\Grot@end ->\special {ps: currentpoint gr
estore moveto}
l.62
Output written on DSLRBOOK.dvi (13 pages, 62096 bytes).
Transcript written on DSLRBOOK.log.
texify: latex exited with bad status, quitting.
texify: see "DSLRBOOK.log" for errors.
>
I got the same result when trying to use the everypage package to do
something similar but simpler. (I don't actually need the draft watermark;
a shorter message on every page is what I want.)
mc
"Karl Ove Hufthammer" <ka...@huftis.org> wrote in message
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>
>> I'm using draftwatermark (fresh from CTAN) on a relatively long
>> manuscript
>> and getting "TeX Capacity Exceeded" on the 12th page. Is this a known
>> problem?
>
> I have experienced this too. I seem to recall that including (large?)
> images
> increased the chances of it happening. It was a problem with both latex
> and
> pdflatex, and was no doubt caused by a bug in drafterwatermark.
I think \AddEverypageHook must be causing some kind of endless recursion,
based on a few experiments, but am not sure. As I said in another message,
I don't have time to debug this, but I hope someone will.
mc
interacts in a messier way than he realizes with floats. In my situation
it's crashing where there are 3 pages of floats.
I'll go back to using PostScript specials, dvips, and Acrobat.
Jim
mc wrote:
> What I'm wanting to do is add a couple of lines ("this is an unpublished
> manuscript, copyright etc. etc.") to every page of my document.
every head or foot is easy with this package. Also, you can put it
anywhere on the page by making a LaTeX picture environment, putting it
in the header, and writing something like \put(100,-200){--whatever--}
(you can put outside the picture).
Jim
mc
"Jim" <jhef...@smcvt.edu> wrote in message
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Very good suggestion!! I'll try that.
Robin Fairbairns
there are other ways, though: using eso-pic (or everyshi, which it's
built on, direct) is common. see
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=watermark
i'll add a note about your experience; is it perhaps just to do with
you using sideways floats? (i can't provoke it with a single sideways
float, i have to admit.)
have you mailed callegari about the apparent bug?
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Maarten
> What I'm wanting to do is add a couple of lines ("this is an unpublished
> manuscript, copyright etc. etc.") to every page of my document. I've been
> doing this with PostScript specials, but those don't show up when I use
> dvipdf. So I thought draftwatermark would do the job.
Post processing with pdftk is another option that may work. There is an
example on the pdftk homepage.
Maarten
mc
"Robin Fairbairns" <rf...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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Haven't done that, and haven't constructed a minimum reproduction of the
error -- I had to go out of town. It's not sideways floats. It's multiple
full-page floats that stack up so you get a place where there are several of
them in a row.
Someone who is in touch with the author of draftwatermark may want to mail
this thread to him (or a pointer to it). I regret that I was out of town
and away from newsgroups during most of the discussion. Thanks for your
suggestions about other tools!