[tex-live] PK fonts characters left blank by "dvips -P pdf" on windows

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Nov 16 17:25:17 CET 2010


Cezary Śliwa <sliwa at cft.edu.pl> wrote:

> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> >
> >>> it has never (ime) worked for documents that required bitmap fonts --
> >>> since there has never been a metafont mode for a 8000dpi printer.
> >>>        
> >> dpdfezzz is used on Linux.
> >>      
> > what linux?  (it's not available on mine, that i can see.)
> >
> >    
> from 2010/texmf-dist/metafont/misc/modes.mf :
> 
> % Reported by Silas Brown, 4 April 2003, via Debian bug 184875.
> % {\tt dvips -Ppdf} wants 8000$\,$dpi fonts, so define a mode for that.
> mode_def dpdfezzz =                 %\[ dvips -Ppdf (8000dpi)
>   mode_param (pixels_per_inch, 4000 * 2);
>   mode_param (blacker, 0);
>   mode_param (fillin, 0);
>   mode_param (o_correction, 1);
>   mode_common_setup_;
> enddef;

misunderstood what you were saying -- sorry.

you're saying that tex live dvips on widnoze doesn't get that? -- that
surely is a bug.  but for all that, i wouldn't use -Ppdf on a modern
system (except in really strange circumstances).

robin



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