Bug#130285: tetex-bin: xdvi cannot display some DVI file

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:19:46PM +0100, laurent bonnaud wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 1.0.7+20011202-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to display this file with xdvi:
> 
>   http://epubs.siam.org/sam-bin/getfile/SIREV/articles/38698.dvi
> 
> but it fails because of missing fonts.  I thought that xdvi was supposed to
> fall back on existing font by doing font substitutions.  Unfortunately, it does
> not work.  After many mktexpk runs, xdvi displays the following messages:
> 
> xdvi.bin: can't find font gn; using cmr10 instead at 360 dpi.
> xdvi.bin: Not all pixel files were found

It would appear that it is using some special font which you don't
have called "gn".

   Julian

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