Bug#138157: Does a workaround exist?

[Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>]

Hi,

as this bug is nearly 10 years old I guess it won't be fixed anytime soon.

Does there exist a workaround for it? For example I have to use the IEEEtran
class [1] but can't view the dvi because of this bug:

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 ptmr8t
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ptmr8t.
mktexpk: perhaps ptmr8t is missing from the map file.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
Warning: file ptmr8t.600pk is not found
Uncaught exception: File "search.ml", line 209, characters 2-8: Assertion failed

Is there an easy way of what I can state in my tex document so that I can
generate a dvi from the IEEEtran class which can be viewed in advi?

Thanks!

cheers, josch

[1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/