[tex-live] Bug#417582: Buggy postscript files with archaic fonts

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Wed Apr 4 13:41:59 CEST 2007


reassign 417582 dvipsk-ja
quit

Hi all, hi Frank!

On Die, 03 Apr 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> This is dvips(k) p1.7a Copyright 2005 ASCII Corp.(www-ptex at ascii.co.jp)

This comes from dvipsk-ja and as

On Mit, 04 Apr 2007, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> You are using a patched dvips. Please confirm that dyy etc. are
> defined in tex.pro.
> Please try the original dvips 5.96 in TeXLive.
> Here, both of the original dvips 5.96 and 'ASCII' patched one
> create PostScript file 'asamples.ps' which can be processed by gs-8.54,
> gs-8.56.

It seems to be a problem in dvipsk-ja in Debian. I guess this packages
needs an update.

I can confirm that with Debian TeX Live's dvips there are no problems.

Best wishes

Norbert

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