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computers suck
Two days ago all the figures in my thesis draft disappeared. Hell, the figures in my proposal document disappeared when I reLatexed it, and I haven't touched that for two years (and the filesystem agrees with me).
I regenerated the .eps figures with ps2epsi. I reprinted the Postscript for them from Powerpoint. They stayed blank white.
On my laptop I found an .eps file for one of the diagrams from the proposal talk. This .eps file printed non-blank. I don't know how I generated it, but it is precious.
I copied that file, chopped its guts out, transplanted in the guts from another diagram's .ps file, and generated a dummy .eps from the .ps just to spak its %%BoundingBox into my file. Then I fine-tuned the bounding boxes by hand.
Doing this to Postscript files ain't right.
I regenerated the .eps figures with ps2epsi. I reprinted the Postscript for them from Powerpoint. They stayed blank white.
On my laptop I found an .eps file for one of the diagrams from the proposal talk. This .eps file printed non-blank. I don't know how I generated it, but it is precious.
I copied that file, chopped its guts out, transplanted in the guts from another diagram's .ps file, and generated a dummy .eps from the .ps just to spak its %%BoundingBox into my file. Then I fine-tuned the bounding boxes by hand.
Doing this to Postscript files ain't right.