Re: (te)TeX recent changes ...

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Bruno Beaufils wrote:
> Is there a place where recent changes in TeX packages are documented ?
>
> I ask that because since some times all my pdf produced files are unreadable
> by people using Acrobat Reader, and even xpdf sends me insults about some
> bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph (Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph).
>
> I did not change any thing in my configuration. I just make some classical
> upgrade for time to time (I use sid on a Mac Powerbook G4, for now I only use
> teTeX).
>
> My way of producing pdf files is using latex then dvips and then ps2pdf since
> I always wants .ps AND .pdf file.
>
> I am french and thus use some special characters coded in latin1 such as
> accentuated letters or french quotation mark (« and »).
>
> As for now when I dvips I used "-u +config.outline" but the config.outline
> file disappear.
>
> I have installed cm-super and cm-super-x11 but continue to have the same
> problem.
>
> Using pdffont on my pdf files report always Type 3 fonts.
>
> Any idea ?

It's not necessarily a tex or tetex problem (in fact quite probably 
not). Your dvi file is converted by ghostscript to ps and then to pdf. 
IIRC, there are about three different versions of gs available for 
debian. When I had some problems obtaining 'nice' pdfs I installed 
gs-afpl and have used this as default ever since.

(When I was switching from M$ to linux I was wondering, why my M$ pdfs 
were smaller and better rendered than debian's, after the switch to 
gs-afpl I think they turn out identical (I no longer use M$)).

aptitude install gs-afpl
update-alternatives --config gs

and pointing to gs-afpl did it for me.

There may be special command line options to gs you might try if that 
doesn't work.

Please report your experiences to the list.

Hope that helps.

Johannes