Re: Bug#62888: tetex-bin: xdvi keeps trying to find fonts which are there.
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
[...]
> On 23 Apr 2000, Christoph Martin wrote:
> > Anthony Campbell writes:
> > > Package: tetex-bin
> > > Version: 0.9.981113-2
> > >
> >
> > Oh. please, be more specific.
> >
> > Christoph
> >
>
> Apologies if I was unclear; the problem is as follows:
>
> When I run xdvi on a .dvi file it does the following:
>
> "kpathsea: Running mktexp --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+100 dpi
> cmbx12"
> "mktexp: [above font] already exists."
>
> and so on for numerous other fonts, all of which exists. I have made
> ls-R writable by everyone but this doesn't alter things.
>
> On a big file this takes quite a long time.
>
> I wasn't sure if this was correct or not, but several correspondents
> have told me that it is not the correct behaviour, so I reported it as a
> bug. If it *is* the expected behaviour, please accept my apologies.
No this is not the correct behaviour. This means that xdvi does not find
this font then calls mktexpk. But maketexpk finds this font!
You may try
xdvi -debug 2047 file.dvi 2>xdvi.log
and look into xdvi.log which paths are searched for.
Denis
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