GS A4 format workaround truncates images

[Tom Rhodes]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:48:49 +0900 (JST)
Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote
>   in <20031228153032.D52833 at abigail.blackend.org>:
> 
> blackend> I just noted our workaround to allow build with "GS A4" truncates
> blackend> images, have a look at:
> blackend> 
> blackend> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html
> blackend> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-access-bottlenecks.html
> blackend> 
> blackend> etc.
> blackend> 
> blackend> If you try a build with previous Groff options i.e.:
> blackend> 
> blackend> PIC2PS?=	${GROFF} -p -S -Wall -mtty-char -man
> blackend> 
> blackend> the images are OK.
> 
>  Hmmm, I could reproduce the problem.  When gs with A4=yes and
>  ${PIC2PS} with "-p a4" are used, the truncation does not occur.
> 
>  I think we can replace ps2epsi with a make target using gs directly.
>  Does anyone have other ideas?  I will commit the workaround in a couple
>  of days.

So, let me get this straight.  A workaround to a workaround.
I like the way it sounds!  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes