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Christoph Schiller  
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 More options Oct 23 2008, 11:15 am
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex, comp.text.pdf
From: Christoph Schiller <chri_schil...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 11:15 am
Subject: Trouble with movie15, films in pdf, and Acrobat Distiller
For the next version of my free 1500 page
physics text ( download at www.motionmountain.net )
I have big problems. I need to use Acrobat Distiller,
but I do not get embedded movies to work. Distiller
does not find the mpg file; ps2pdf does.

This few line tex file works fine with ps2pdf
(uses relative paths)

www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.tex
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.aux
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.log
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.dvi
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.ps
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.pdf

but this simple tex file for Acrobat Distiller,
with absolute paths, does not work:

www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.tex
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.aux
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.out
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.dvi
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.ps

This is the Acrobat Distiller error text:

www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.log

I use Mac OSX 10.4.11, Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2 Pro.
Mac OSX has no Unix "strace" command.

Can anybody help? Any help is
greatly appreciated !

Best regards

    Christoph


 
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Christoph Schiller  
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 More options Oct 24 2008, 6:56 am
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex, comp.text.pdf, comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Christoph Schiller <chri_schil...@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:56:18 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Oct 24 2008 6:56 am
Subject: Re: Trouble with movie15, films in pdf, and Acrobat Distiller
To solve the Acrobat Distiller problem described below,
somebody told me to start Distiller with the -F flag.
This might solve the problem.
How is this done on MacOSX?

The OSX command structure I know of is
open -a Dsitiller.app filename.ps
This does not allow to add a -F flag for Distiller,
or am I wrong?

Thanks for any help!

     Christoph

On Oct 23, 5:15 pm, Christoph Schiller <chri_schil...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> For the next version of my free 1500 page
> physics text ( download atwww.motionmountain.net)
> I have big problems. I need to use Acrobat Distiller,
> but I do not get embedded movies to work. Distiller
> does not find the mpg file; ps2pdf does.

> This few line tex file works fine with ps2pdf
> (uses relative paths)

> www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.tex

www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.aux
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.log
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.dvi
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.ps
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.pdf

> but this simple tex file for Acrobat Distiller,
> with absolute paths, does not work:

> www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.tex

www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.aux
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.out
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.dvi
www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.ps


 
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Aidan Kehoe  
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 More options Jan 2 2009, 3:34 pm
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex, comp.text.pdf, comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Aidan Kehoe <keh...@parhasard.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:34:21 +0000
Local: Fri, Jan 2 2009 3:34 pm
Subject: Re: Trouble with movie15, films in pdf, and Acrobat Distiller

 Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Christoph Schiller:

 > To solve the Acrobat Distiller problem described below,
 > somebody told me to start Distiller with the -F flag.
 > This might solve the problem.
 > How is this done on MacOSX?
 >
 > The OSX command structure I know of is
 > open -a Dsitiller.app filename.ps
 > This does not allow to add a -F flag for Distiller,
 > or am I wrong?

I haven’t tried it with huge numbers of applications, but in my
experience, one can normally run an OS X application with explicit command
line arguments like so:

  $ cd /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS
  $ file Emacs                              
  Emacs: Mach-O executable i386
  $ ./Emacs --version                        
  GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1
  Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
  You may redistribute copies of Emacs
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
  For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
  $

So in your case, you could try

 /Applications/Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/Distiller -F filename.ps

but there is some guessing there, it may not do exactly what you want.

If it helps at all, the BSD and Mac OS X equivalent of strace(1) is
ktrace(1).

Happy New Year,

Aidan

 > On Oct 23, 5:15 pm, Christoph Schiller <chri_schil...@yahoo.com>

 > wrote:

 > > For the next version of my free 1500 page
 > > physics text ( download atwww.motionmountain.net)
 > > I have big problems. I need to use Acrobat Distiller,
 > > but I do not get embedded movies to work. Distiller
 > > does not find the mpg file; ps2pdf does.
 > >
 > > This few line tex file works fine with ps2pdf
 > > (uses relative paths)
 > >
 > > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.tex
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.aux
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.log
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.dvi
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.ps
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest.pdf
 > >
 > > but this simple tex file for Acrobat Distiller,
 > > with absolute paths, does not work:
 > >
 > > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.tex
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.aux
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.out
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.dvi
 > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.ps
 > >
 > > This is the Acrobat Distiller error text:
 > >
 > > www.motionmountain.net/testdir/filmtest2.log
 > >
 > > I use Mac OSX 10.4.11, Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2 Pro.
 > > Mac OSX has no Unix "strace" command.
 > >
 > > Can anybody help? Any help is
 > > greatly appreciated !
 > >
 > > Best regards
 > >
 > >     Christoph
 >

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Christoph Schiller  
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 More options Jan 3 2009, 3:02 pm
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex, comp.text.pdf, comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Christoph Schiller <chri_schil...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:02:35 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Jan 3 2009 3:02 pm
Subject: Re: Trouble with movie15, films in pdf, and Acrobat Distiller
On Jan 2, 3:34 pm, Aidan Kehoe <keh...@parhasard.net> wrote:

Thank you - the problem was much deeper. A preference of
Distiller had to be changed. Now it is ok. The pdf is
now working and is free for download at www.motionmountain.net
since  afew days.

Regards

    Christoph


 
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