Bug#171344: xdvi sometimes uses wrong-size bitmaps
Scripsit Stefan Ulrich
> Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
> > I have observed this phenomenon as well. Some experimenting shows me
> > that it is probably not T1 encoding that triggers the bug, but the
> > use of scaleable PostScript fonts.
> This is a known bug in versions 22.38 - 22.40f:
> which has been fixed in 22.40g, over a year ago.
Ok. There seems to be a newer package in the Debian pipeline, which is
currently being held back by build problems for other parts of teTeX.
> > More data: The problem is not restricted to small caps. It surfaced
> > for me in a document where xdvi insists on rendering \footnotesize
> > text with \normalsize bitmaps (but still the correct \footnotesize
> > spacing).
> I can't reproduce this one; do you have sample for that? It
> doesn't sound as if it was the same bug ...
I finally managed to produce a minimized example of this. It looks
very much as if it is indeed the same bug as with small caps; it only
shows up if there is *also* small-caps text somewhere in the dvi
file. But FYI, here are files that provoke it:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{charter}
\begin{document}
\shipout\hbox{normalsize {\footnotesize footnotesize} \textsc{Small caps}}
\end{document}
begin 644 foo.dvi
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M``$```````````````````````````````````````````````#_____GP=F
M9/,.GN2U0P`*````"@````9B8VAR-W2Y;F]R;6%L<VEZ998"QZ?S#Y[DM4,`
M"`````H````&8F-H<C=TNF9O;W1N;W1E<VEZ99/S$`,&8XP`"@````H````'
M8F-H<F,W=+M3;6%L;)-CD-F@87!SC/@````J`8.2P!P[``````/H``=\'P"3
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end
> > I use tetex-bin version 1.0.7+20011202-8
> Unfortunately that tells me nothing about the xdvik version
> used ...
I didn't count on the upstream authors monitoring the Debian BTS.
It turns out to be 22.40f
--
Henning Makholm "... not one has been remembered from the time
when the author studied freshman physics. Quite the
contrary: he merely remembers that such and such is true, and to
explain it he invents a demonstration at the moment it is needed."
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