[cl-typesetting-devel] problems getting up and running

[Marc Battyani]

"rohan nicholls" <nichollsrohan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Kevin Griffin <kevin at cavewallarts.com>
> >rohan nicholls wrote:
> >>Hello everyone,
> >>
> >>I have been trying out cl-pdf and cl-typesetting, but I cannot get the
> >>examples to work, and would appreciate any help getting sorted out.
> >>
> >>When I run the example I get this error on sbcl 0.9.4.14 with slime cvs
> >>(last updated 2005-08-29):
> >>
> >>encoding error on stream #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /tmp/ex1.pdf"
> >>{A2F7221}>
> >>(:EXTERNAL-FORMAT :ASCII):
> >>the character with code 153 cannot be encoded.
> >>  [Condition of type SB-INT:STREAM-ENCODING-ERROR]
> >>
> >>
> >I had similar problems. Try removing old fasl files and rebuilding.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, I have tried that, and unfortunately ended up
> with exactly
> the same error.
>
> Any other ideas.  Could there be some sort of confusion for the package,
or
> sbcl about what the default encoding is?

It seems that cl-pdf needs to be patched to work with the new SBCL.

Zach Beane sent me some patch for this. I have to integrate and test it
(along with a few other ones) before I release a new version.
Here it is (attached), so that you can try it.

Marc
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