[pstricks] prosper overlays problems

[akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de]

Hello Herbert,

    here is the minimal example.

The prosper file test1.tex:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[pdf,serpaggi,slideColor,colorBG,accumulate,nototal]{prosper}
\usepackage{pstricks,pst-node}
%%%\usepackage{pst-ovl}
\begin{document}

\overlays{2}{
\begin{slide}[Box]{This is a test}
\small
This is the first frame
\fromSlide{2}{

This is the second frame
}
\end{slide}
}
\end{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Then

latex test1 -> dvips test1 -> ps2pdf test1.ps test1.pdf

At the last stage there is an error message:

Error: /undefined in BOL
Operand stack:
    (1)
Execution stack:
    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1977   1   3   %oparray_pop 
1976   1   3   %oparray_pop   1960   1   3   %oparray_pop   1852   1   3 
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2 
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push 
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
    --dict:1198/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:122/200(L)-- 
--dict:181/300(L)--   --dict:119/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
Current file position is 150749
GPL Ghostscript 9.18: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

The error actually occurs already at the dvips stage. If after dvips test1
I open the test1.ps file with gv, I see the following error message:

Error: /undefined in BOL
Operand stack:
    (1)
Execution stack:
    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1977   1   3   %oparray_pop 
1976   1   3   %oparray_pop   1960   1   3   %oparray_pop   1852   1   3 
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2 
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push 
--nostringval--
DictiGPL Ghostscript 9.18: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
onary stack:
    --dict:1198/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:123/200(L)-- 
--dict:181/300(L)--   --dict:119/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: Resource temporarily unavailable



The problem seems to be known, but I was not able to find a clear 
solution. On the web page

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/132779/problem-with-overlays

it is mentioned that the problem may be related to incompatibility of
prosper with recent versions of pstricks. However, the suggested solution
(to add \usepackage{pst-ovl}) did not work in my case.



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> Hi, I have recently upgraded Ubuntu to version 16.04 on my desktop and
> found that all my legacy prosper files with \overlays in them stopped
> working. Apparently the problem is that prosper is not compatible with
> recent versions of pstricks. Is it possible to get an older version which
> would still work with prosper? Thanks, Evgeny
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:20:08 +0100
> From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
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> Am 26.01.2017 um 10:32 schrieb akhmedov at mpi-hd.mpg.de:
>> Hi, I have recently upgraded Ubuntu to version 16.04 on my desktop and
>> found that all my legacy prosper files with \overlays in them stopped
>> working. Apparently the problem is that prosper is not compatible with
>> recent versions of pstricks. Is it possible to get an older version
>> which would still work with prosper? Thanks, Evgeny
>
> Please give a short and complete example with the error message.
>
> Herbert
>
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