revtex4 incompatibility

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Author: kovidgoyal
Timestamp: 2006-04-04 03:32:15

Hi,

pgf/tikz appears to be incompatible with revtex4
(document class provided by the American Physical
Society http://authors.aps.org/revtex4\)

latex main.tex && dvips main.dvi && ps2pdf main.ps
on the following documents produces an error at the
ps2pdf stage and the generated ps is not viewable.

\documentclass[twocolumn]{revtex4}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\title{test}
\maketitle
\begin{tikzpicture}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Removing either the twocolumn or the \maketitle fixes
it. pdflatex also produces correct output. The error
generated by gs is
Error: /undefined in pgfo
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1
3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1
3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1119/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20
(G)-- --dict:81/200(L)-- --dict:175/300(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 15748
ESP Ghostscript 815.01: Unrecoverable error, exit
code 1

Thanks,

Kovid.

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Author: tantau
Timestamp: 2006-04-04 08:37:49

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Hi!

indeed. Turns out the revtex4 does *really evil* things like throwing away all
text before the title.

Anyway, I fixed this and the problem should no longer occur in similar
situations. Please try the current CVS that solves the problem.

Thanks for pointing this out,
Till

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Author: tantau
Timestamp: 2006-04-04 08:37:49

• status: open --> closed-fixed

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Author: tantau
Timestamp: 2006-04-04 08:45:54

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Hi again,

turns out the CVS of sourceforge is down currently, so I cannot commit (its
supposed to work again tomorrow).

So, here is the diff for the impatient:

In the file pgf/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-dvips.def

change the line

\def\pgf@sys@postscript@header#1{\special{! #1}}

to

\def\pgf@sys@postscript@header#1{\AtBeginDvi{\special{! #1}}}

and change the line

\special{!

to

\pgf@sys@postscript@header{

That should do the trick.

Best regards,
Till

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Author: kovidgoyal
Timestamp: 2006-04-04 17:08:00

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Hi,

Thank you for the prompt response. Current CVS fixes the
test case. I'll let you know if revtex creates anymore
problems.

Kovid.