ps2pdf Unrecoverable error

You might try running Ghostscript directly, rather than using the script:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -o 10132012b.pdf 10132012a.ps

or even:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o 10132012b.pdf - < 10132012a.ps

The "convenience" scripts (ps2pdf, pdf2ps, etc) use options which might get in the way (although they really shouldn't).

I just found a brilliant way to get this /undefinedfilename error. It took me about 15 minutes to figure it out.

First I did this.

user@host> dvips test1This is dvips(k) 5.98 Copyright 2009 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)' TeX output 2015.08.04:2315' -> test1.ps</usr/lib/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro></usr/lib/texmf/dvips/base/texps.pro>. </usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>[-1] [-2] [1] [2] 

And then I did this.

user@host> ps2pdf text1.psError: /undefinedfilename in (text1.ps)Operand stack:Execution stack:   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_pushDictionary stack:   --dict:1172/3371(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--Current allocation mode is localLast OS error: 2GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Then it finally hit me. It was a spelling error in the file name. So the command line argument for ps2pdf was a non-existent file.

In my opinion, a better error message would be Cannot find file test1.ps, instead of Error: /undefinedfilename in (text1.ps).

The error means that ps2pdf could not find the file 10132012a.ps.

latex does not create ps files: it creates dvi files which can be converted to ps with dvips.

Perhaps you forgot to run dvips?