Re: dvi2ps

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:07:11 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
>
>> I've asked an upstream author how he thinks of this issue
>> and if I get any response, I'll report it here.
>
> I got a reply from the upstream author today.  He said
> that he updated dvi2ps so that it uses freetype2 instead
> of freetype1 

That's good news! 

I seem to recall that there are other TeX-related programs that still
use freetype1, and also hearing that switching to freetype2 would be too
hard. But maybe with one program switched, we can hope to just adapt the
patches? 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)