Bug#184875: tetex-bin: dvips -Ppdf won't work at all

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 15.03.03 Silas S. Brown (ssb22@cam.ac.uk) wrote:

Hi,

> Help!  I try "dvips -Ppdf somefile.dvi" and I get lots of "font not
> found" messages from mktexpk, and sure enough there are lots of
> blank characters.
> 
1. Do you have tetex-extra installed?
2. Could you post the complete error message?

> I'm positive I've got the right font packages installed (I haven't
> changed my package list).
> 
So, please post "dpkg -l tetex*" .

> If I try "xdvi" then that works;
> 
Probably xdvi loads the pk-Fonts, while -Ppdf advises dvips to load
the Type1-Fonts, hence my suspection of missing tetex-extra.

H. 
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