Subject: Re: Bug#3415: Xdvi and postscript fonts

From: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 96 18:39 EST

Ok, let's try to make things clearer...

>>>>> "ME" == Mark Eichin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>> "jw" == joost witteveen <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> 
>> Package: gs
>> Version: 2.62-2
>> 
>> The gsftopk program, which comes with the teTeX 0.3.3, is missing from
>> both gs and texbin-3.1415-5.  It's non in the non-free gs either.
>> 
>> This program makes it possible to use postscript fonts with xdvi.

ps2pk does *exactly* the same and MakeTeXPK can work with it. Install
it from the stable/tex dir.

>> 
>> Package: latex
>> Version: 2e-4
>> 
>> Using xdvi with postscript fonts doesn't work: MakeTeXPK doesn't
>> create the postscript bitmap files.  I get output like this:

jw> Could you send me your input file(s)?
jw> Last time (yesterday) when I used \usepackage{times} in my latex2e
jw> files, itworked OK, but you probably mean something different
jw> with the postscript fonts.

ME> Did you use xdvi, though? latex->dvips works, I think, it's the
ME> latex-> xdvi that screws up (xdvi uses ugly fonts at the wrong
ME> size instead, because MakeTeXPK fails to create them.)

Yes, ME is right. If you want to have the nice postscript fonts to
appear with xdvi you have to have them *in your disk* (pfa or pfb
files) and have ps2pk installed; MakeTeXPK will do the rest.

If you don't have the fonts (they come with ATM), you can convert you
dvi file to ps and display the ps with ghostscript. The fonts will
look ugly, but it's the best you can get.

>> The TeTeX distribution (version 0.3.3) provides gsftopk, which uses
>> the ghostscript fonts to create the bitmaps.  I think the debian
>> packages should do this too.

jw> Could you also tell me where to find teTeX? (if CTAN, then never
jw> mind, I'll find it).

teTeX is not a program. It's an entire multi-architecture TeX
distribution for Unix put together by Thomas Esser.

Hope this helps guys.

Emilio.

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From: Rob Browning <[email-masked]>
Date: 01 Jul 1996 21:58:31 -0500

> it from the stable/tex dir.

But gstopk allows you to view all the "standard" postscript fonts from
xdvi without installing anything that's non-debian.  (All you need
AFAIK is gsfonts).  With ps2pk you have to go find the ps fonts
somewhere else, hence I would prefer gstopk.

--
Rob

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From: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 96 18:19 EST

>>>>> "RB" == Rob Browning <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> it from the stable/tex dir.

RB> But gstopk allows you to view all the "standard" postscript fonts from
RB> xdvi without installing anything that's non-debian.  (All you need
RB> AFAIK is gsfonts).  With ps2pk you have to go find the ps fonts
RB> somewhere else, hence I would prefer gstopk.

So, don't you would like to make a gsftopk package? That's the fun of
free software and open development systems: if you don't like the way
it works or it simply doesn't works you can fix it!

(I'm somewhat inspired; I've just come from a talk by RMS... :-)

Emilio.